For a life on these benefits

[pisces]

I don't think so no. It pays them to well to keep schtum.

[gadgetman]

As someone posted in another thread its the rank hypocrisy that gets me.

How can they expect to be in touch with the country when they are all busy with their snouts in the trough.

Is there not one MP with a shred of integrity who will stand up and denounce this stuff?

[MrsGoof]

So what are they doing woth these 2nd houses , vandalising them ?

Peter Mandelson, then MP for Hartlepool, spent £2,981 on repairs

Between 2001 and 2003, Margaret Beckett spent £12,170.67 on repairs

oh and

Mark Oaten, the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman who quit over a sex scandal, claimed £145 for a new bed and £99 for a mattress in January 2006

[Peoplesoft bloke]

When I worked down south I rented a room in a house - I was allowed to run that rent through as a company expense. What I couldn't do was fill the room with all the niceties of home - I pay for SKY at home, but I couldn't pay for it again while down south and claim that cost back like that snot gobbling cretin we have 'running' the country did. All MP's expenses should be, as the Inland Revenue state, wholly and exclusively incurred as part of their job as a MP. This lot don't have their cake and eat it, they have their cake and then multiple cakes also. Fekin wonkers the lot of them!

WHS - (why)tf are we paying for Sky telly and stuff for these gits? And from what I can see, there is no party monopoly on greed in this area - they all seem to be grabbing swine.

[BoredBloke]

When I worked down south I rented a room in a house - I was allowed to run that rent through as a company expense. What I couldn't do was fill the room with all the niceties of home - I pay for SKY at home, but I couldn't pay for it again while down south and claim that cost back like that snot gobbling cretin we have 'running' the country did. All MP's expenses should be, as the Inland Revenue state, wholly and exclusively incurred as part of their job as a MP. This lot don't have their cake and eat it, they have their cake and then multiple cakes also. Fekin wonkers the lot of them!

[lilelvis2000]

If the law/rule doesn't fit. change it. Mugabe still has something to learn from Britain.

[Pondlife]

so, what's the best solution....

Just give them all the full £23K, no receipts, no questions asked.

Beeb linky

MPs could seek to avoid future expenses criticism by awarding themselves an automatic lump sum of £23,000 a year for second homes, a newspaper says.

According to the Times, the automatic grant will be a key recommendation of a review of MPs' expenses, led by the Speaker Michael Martin.

FFS

They really do have no shame whatsoever.

[Moose423956]

Not really. He was all for abolitioning parliament, but was intent on restoring the papal rule to England.

paypal

[pisces]

"Your account may be transferred to a debt recovery agency...We appreciate that you may be experiencing some financial difficulties," it said

Looks like eveyone's been feeling the pinch.

[NotAllThere]

Guido Fawkes had the right idea...

Not really. He was all for abolitioning parliament, but was intent on restoring the papal rule to England.

[Troll]

The health minister Ann Keen is this weekend revealed to have insured her 70-year-old husband’s life for £430,000 – and to have claimed the premiums on parliamentary expenses.

Keen took out a joint HSBC “first death” policy with her husband Alan, also a Labour MP, which meant if one of them died the other would get the payout.

The £867 monthly premiums were submitted as part of their parliamentary expenses. The couple are already entitled to generous payouts if one of them dies under the Commons pension scheme.

Nice....

[MrMark]

David Cameron's mortgage costs UK taxpayers £21,000 a year:



Guido Fawkes had the right idea...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23474269-details/MPs'+expenses+list+reveals+David+Cameron+'used+the +system'+to+pay+his+mortgage/article.do

[Moose423956]

No wonder they tried to stop it being published. If I was them, I'd be ashamed. Money grabbing barstewards.

[SueEllen]

Gosh I wanna sign up. I think I'll challenge Ms. Blears. Then its on the gravy train.

Please do and make sure you win. I like to see a lot less of her in the Media.

[lilelvis2000]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7417017.stm

£10K for a new kitchen in his own home..for a man who earns over £200K a year!

Gosh I wanna sign up. I think I'll challenge Ms. Blears. Then its on the gravy train.