Forgot to say this is tax payers money and it doesn't include his wages;- http://parliament.telegraph.co.uk/mpsexpenses/expenses/Gerald-Howarth/mp-10293

   I want him to resign after reading the following:- http://parliament.telegraph.co.uk/mpsexpenses/mp-details/Gerald-Howarth/mp-10293. It is discusting that all this tax payers money goes towards his home and his wifes wages for her to work for him, I didn't think it was allowed to have family working for you mr howarth.

   I believe Gerald Howarth is simply just another one of the very many M P`s and MEP`swho are happilly riding the political gravy train very much at the publics expense. Lets face it, there are far to many of them !, they are costing far to much, and they are achieving far to little for the public. Every one of them who has been investigated and asked to pay back money, or who has made money at the publics expense by selling, or telling lies about a second home should be subjected to immediate uncompensated sacking, they should not be replaced in order to reduce their numbers, and they should all have to pay capital gains tax without exception, just like the rest of us. A.T.F. Armed Forces Veteran.

   It's a bit harsh to expect Mr Howarth to resign his seat when we have no real evidence on which to base a judgement. Simply asking him to go on the basis that everyone thinks his comments are arrogant really is a bit much. He's entitled to his views, no matter how ill-conceived they might be.

What Mr Howarth might care to do is to unilaterally release details of his claims over the last four years. They're going to come out eventually either in the Telegraph or as part of the release under the Freedom of Information Act in August and as Parliament intended. If he did release the data voluntarily then he just might recover some credibility. People might, just might, actually vote for him again. Miracles have happened.

   In response to the comment submitted by Phooto alleging unbalanced reporting, bias, and sensationalism in the Farnborough News and Mail.

The news item was written on the back of dozens of letters and website comments from residents in Rushmoor concerned at remarks made by Mr Howarth in the newspaper on May 15.

Many of the responses we received were angry, and some described Mr Howarth's comments as arrogant.

These postings were in the public domain and we at the News and Mail felt it in the interest of fairness to give Mr Howarth his right of reply.

The result was about 400 words of front page copy dedicated entirely to Mr Howarth, where he said he regretted the impression of arrogance and admitted he was deeply conscious of the public concern.

On these grounds, I am unsure how this story could ever be described as biased, unbalanced or sensationalist.

Regarding the point that May 29's newspaper only covered reports on independent candidates standing in June's county council elections, this is because we featured each one of the parties, including the Conservatives, in our May 22 edition.

   How on earth does a comfy sofa for your home assist you in performing your parliamentary duties?!

Come the next general election, personally I'll be voting Lib Dem. Most people are certainly not going to vote for you again after your outrageous arrogance (ie. claiming that you "could earn more in your previous job", for not apologising for your part in this expenses debacle, and for having the cheek to say "It didn’t cost the taxpayer very much money".)

Gerald you need to pay back every unreasonable penny. End of.

   Reading the Farnborough News & Mail today, I have to say that your coverage of Gerald Howarth's expenses shows an unbalanced reporting attitude as I now see it.

My reaction to your initial report was one of shock and anger, as was probably the reaction of most constituents, but Mr Howarth took the time to telephone me and put his point of view. The newspaper chose to print my letter in the week after it was sent (although you had it in time for the previous week's issue) and have given half a page of coverage to the reasons why we should vote Independent next week, without giving the other parties points of view. You have printed my letter in full, but Mr Howarth appears not to have been given the right to reply, because you have edited his comments. In the interests of balance and democracy, should you not have printed his letter in full (even in preference over mine)?

I have seen Mr Howarth's letter to the newspaper, and you have left out many of his comments. Instead of editing the letter, it would have been fairer to print the letter in full. Mr Howarth answers the accusations put before him, and when his expenses are fully released, we can then decide if he has misled us or is being fair. The truth will out. It is not for the newspaper to select parts of a response to print, leaving out others for the cause of sensationalism.

What appears to be biased reporting by the Farnborough News & Mail now comes too late to give anyone the opportunity to present any balanced views before the Council and European elections.

I'm not a journalist, so I don't know about regulations of codes of conduct, but your newspaper does appear to be biased in this, the last edition before the elections.

I am now left wondering who is the real villain here, Gerald Howarth, or the Farnborough News & Mail?

   Indeed he does need to go! I think he has been in long enough, and he hasn’t done enough for Aldershot specifically as the town is just run down.

I also feel that he has taken his job as our MP for granted!

Time for change!!!

   I endorse the resignation of MP Gerald Howarth. My grounds for the endorsement is that I have lived in Aldershot for five years and have seen the fast decline of this Victorian town. Further having lived around the outskirts of town since a child and knowing what a thriving town it once was.

My question to Mr Howarth is "when is he going to fight for the heart of this town, and, its inhabitants? This town is dead on it's feet we have numerous charity shops , takeaways, broken shop windows, a Marks & Spencers that is of no use to me being that it is an outlet store. As a disabled person I cannot traipes around Guildford or the Meadows for clothes. When are they going to give back the pride in this town and the inhabitants? We need decent clothing stores decent restuarants where people will make the effort to visit shop and buy and eat in Aldershot. This is down to our MP and County Councillor/s to fight for it.

Mr Howarth is where the money is and that is all for the army. This town is dead, it is dirty, scruffy, sad, depressed, we get cheap shops because that is what this town attracts. No one will invest in this town! Farnham would not allow any of the shops we have in Aldershot in their town. I go to Farnham for a coffee and scone at Elphicks because it is decent town it attracts me as a persioner who wants a decent life.

Mr Howarth can bleat all he likes and grovel his appology but at a meeting within the Conservative Club he was still as arrogant as ever he was.

I am a pensioner in lodgings and no means of finding a home of my own so I ask Mr Howarth how would he like my circumstances and low pension to live on? Does Mr Howarth shop in Aldershot for his furniture/ no he shops at Bentalls warehouse. Does Mr Howarth eat in one of our many takeaways in town, shop in one of the many charity shops/

I would say more but time and space deserts me. Suffice to say an elderly gentleman 82 years of age told me that he got 25 pence extra when reached 80 on his pension so stop your bleating Mr Howarth and come back into the real world the on that you inhabitated before many years ago when you lost your seat up North and found yourself without the public purse. I stand corrected if this is not so? It is only what I was told .

Yours sincerely

Ms L J Perfect Jordan

   He needs to go!