"...£4.47 for dog food"

[OwlHoot]

Provided the £4.47 for dog food was part of the MP's daily food allowance, I personally don't see a problem. It's cheaper than a meal at a fancy restaurant with a bottle of plonk.

Or for David Blunkett's guide dog - That poor long-suffering mutt deserves only the best steak every day for having to put up with the tosser every waking hour.

[DodgyAgent]

It's poor form to laugh at your own jokes.

I am an agent remember

[expat]

That Hazel Blears gets me, claiming expenses on a second home, then selling it as a main residence to "avoid" CGT. Evade more like. I've a mind to report her to the Met. Police.

Luton MP Margaret Moran put her name on the documents for her partner's house in Southampton, then nominated it as her "second home" and within days spent £22500 of our money on doing it up. It was "within the rules".

She is MP for Luton South, and by chance happens to live in the same street as Luton North MP Kelvin Hopkins. Over the past 5 years, Mr Hopkins claimed £8,894 in second home allowance; Luton South MP Margaret Moran claimed £87,206 in the same period.

Ed Miliband said that MPs have lost public confidence. No, Mr Miliband: we are furious, and we want blood. Yours.

[Troll]

Saw Hazel Blears on the news this morning in her Biker Leathers...

Was enough to put me off food for a year

I've a good mind to report her to the Met for that alone

How can the protection services protect a MP if they insist on riding motorbikes?....

[BrowneIssue]

It's poor form to laugh at your own jokes.

Why?

[thelace]

That Hazel Blears gets me, claiming expenses on a second home, then selling it as a main residence to "avoid" CGT. Evade more like. I've a mind to report her to the Met. Police.

Saw Hazel Blears on the news this morning in her Biker Leathers...

Was enough to put me off food for a year

I've a good mind to report her to the Met for that alone

[Moscow Mule]

half a mind

It's poor form to laugh at your own jokes.

[Menelaus]

Or Barbara Follett, spending £25,000 of my money on a security guard for herself?

WTF? Is the Met insufficient for you, you blithering idiot? We who live in London have to put up with the Met for all its cock ups and inadequacies and if you're not prepared to have the same levels of public service as the rest of us, you can feck off.

[DodgyAgent]

That Hazel Blears gets me, claiming expenses on a second home, then selling it as a main residence to "avoid" CGT. Evade more like. I've a mind to report her to the Met. Police.

half a mind

[Moscow Mule]

That Hazel Blears gets me, claiming expenses on a second home, then selling it as a main residence to "avoid" CGT. Evade more like. I've a mind to report her to the Met. Police.

[Board Game Geek]

Provided the £4.47 for dog food was part of the MP's daily food allowance, I personally don't see a problem. It's cheaper than a meal at a fancy restaurant with a bottle of plonk.

[NickFitz]

Well, who'd've thunk that the Tories were also milking the expenses system

Luckily it turns out to have been a mistake and the money will be repaid (although I assume that the paperwork involved in the original claim and the repaying thereof will be more than the sum involved)

A brief note to all those who think that things will be better under the Tories: Caveat Voter.

Or, as the Sixties slogan had it: Whoever you vote for, the Government always gets in