MPs' expenses

[mockney piers]

Agree with just about everybody on all sides of the debate on this one. Mainly looking forward to he next private eye which should unearth a torrent of hypocrisy form the journos and more particularly from their tax dodging proprieters. Still, broken system or no this has done a greAt deal to tarnish the integrity of our lords and masters which was already at an all time low and some of them really should hang their heads in shame, especially the flippers and double for those who flipped second home to Coastal cottage.

[Brendan]

You make a compelling argument D_C. What are her credentials when it comes to impersonating a young Babs Windsor?

[HonaloochieB]

Tsk tsk DC, it's a Matron and a Sister, not student nurses. Schoolboy error to use a bit of football vernacular.

[david_carnell]

Look I'm a politics graduate. Go and consult a medic if you want an accurate pictorial description of various nursing staff.

Now leave me and the delectable Julia Goldsworthy MP in peace.

And Brendan, she may not have a "lovely pear" but I believe she's raised eyebrows in Black Rod's office.

[dukesdenver]

david_carnell Wrote:

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>> Out of my own ignorance, which MP tried to get a

> B&O TV?

Dunno, but it's number 30 here: Telegraph link

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Please let the Labour frontbencher who bought iced gems be Harriet Harman. I will take back everthing I've ever said about her.

[????]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> But who is going to pay for this serviced

> apartment? The taxpayer.

>

> In central London, 600-odd managed apartments

> isn't going to come cheap.

>

> Out of my own ignorance, which MP tried to get a

> B&O TV?

How about the Olympic Village when the athletes have gone...bung the twats in Stratford, Jubilee stright into Westminster. Plus, David, you talked earlier about insecurity of job.for MPS!!!!..Us in the Private Sector would love 5 year guaranteed contracts, with plenty of perks and non-compulsory attendance.....

[Marmora Man]

Us in the Private Sector would love 5 year guaranteed contracts, with plenty of perks and non-compulsory attendance.....

And a pension that would cost ?30,000 a year to provide in "civilian" life - and a bit more now that Gordon and his friend Alistair have decided to tax pension contributions for high"ish" earners.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Lot's of people saying they would like the perks

Lot's of people saying they would do a better job

...

I think I see a way forward people

[Ted Max]

Draw lot's?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Or they could de-interface their arse from their sofa, their digits from their keyboard and actually put themselves up for election... It's money for old rope apparently

[????]

You pay my deposit and I might - in the meantime I'm getting on with earning money in a real job earning exports for my country, paying taxes and not telling people how to live their lives whilst sticking my own kids in private school and sticking my nose in the trough......

[????]

...you happy with what they are doing with our money....or are you just above all this annoyance and petit borgeois anger? I know many poeple who work bleedin' hard for bugger all and whose taxes shouldn't go on John Prescott's bog, but they are just ordinary non-metropolitan people...who probably read the Daily Mail or even The Sun....

[snorky]

Dont mean to be antagonistic Mr Punt , but when things are pootling along nicels ( eg for most of the pats decade ) , house prices and your equity are rising monthly, youer job is secure, you have a new car, fat telly & can afford a nice extra winter sunhsine break , I never saw many people complaining about kieth vaz caning ?1K on silk cushions

maybe Vaz is a bad example - hes hardly free of scandal and hints of corruption is he ....

[*Bob*]

snorky Wrote:

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house prices and your equity

> are rising monthly,

sore point.. best not to mention it

[AllforNun]

Come Friday night the liberals are going to start to get battered....this is going to run through to Monday. Good source tells me nobody will escape and that some of the expenses are so embarrassing they are being urged to hold back. Apparently some Liberals are single handedly supporting the Organic Food Market in London one particular individual spent close to 3grand on a.....wait for it.........HEMP suit from saville row ? .............i know can it get any worse.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Quids - you know from my earlier responses on this thread that I'll be glad to see the system reformed

But eye-popping outrage? Not really. Yes it's our money but every penny of their wage is our money. I know lots of people who work bloody hard as well and don't earn a fraction of a middle-paid MP. So if these expenses didn't exist at all should I demand that the MP salary be reduced to 16k? (rhetorical question btw)

[macroban]

Kate Hoey looks to be honest.

[woofmarkthedog]

I personally am glad as a company director (I know , hard to swallow but...) that my hard evaded taxes don't go to paying these f*****s..

W**F

*loving the Caymen Islands this time of year...*

[SteveT]

Give them enough trough and they will drown themselves..........we can only hope.

I wonder who approved of this expenses system, surely not the politicians?

[poppylucky]

The more i read about the expenses claimed by our governing classes, the more incensed and disgust i become. They now seem to think that 'coming clean' and repaying part of each MP's expenses is going to remedy the situation, it won't and has'nt....

Here i am, a lowly paid part-time worker, having to scrimp and scrap for everything i need ( i have a disability, so theres certain things i'm unable to do). Having to watch while my hard-earned N.I contributions and Income Tax get splashed on multi-milionaire's MP's moats and swimming pools, gardens, second homes and the rest.

I wish i could claim expenses for even my travel ticket, but i can't! I really do believe that what our MP's have been doing, knowing fully well that it is truly amoral, they should all be investigated for fraudulent claims. I have already written to our MP Tessa Jowell (the one who did'nt know her husband had paid off her own mortgage with dodgy money....)telling her of my utter disgust at our elected representatives and i urge you all to do so aswell, she cannot ignore her own constituents anger, although alot of them seem to be impervious and oblivious to many things....

[Dr Proctor]

Nice to see the Justice Minister has gone, anyone who claims to be 1,000,000% innocent (as Mr Malik did) doesn't deserve to be in full time employment, let alone government.

I find this all a bit sickening.

[????]

He should be on The Apprentice

[SteveT]

The apprentices I worked with could handle a kit of tools.

I suspect the only tool he has worthy of mention, is a sharp tongue.

[HellNoHellYeah]

Sadly I think the majority of people in their position (ie thinking they could get away with this) would similarly take the piss.