belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
oh dear lordy! but then the public sector will never be able to compete will it??!!
MPs allowed to claim upto £10,000 for a new kitchen!
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oh dear lordy! but then the public sector will never be able to compete will it??!!
untethered
For industry & decency
£60K is reasonable for a middle-ranking manager. It seems about right. It's not set at so high a level that people are falling over themselves to do it, nor set so low that people are discouraged.
And if the expenses really are expenses then they shouldn't be considered part of the remuneration package.
_angel_
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Their desperation to keep their huge expenses quiet is total hypocrisy. Benefit claimants have to divulge their financial affairs for pissy amounts of money. Public sector workers get denied reasonable pay rises. This is too much!
Why should tax payers fund some MP's second home refurbishment? How does this compare to the quality of accommodation given to, say, the armed forces.
How can an MP who's say squandered £1000's on buying the latest up to date kitchen in all conscience talk about an IB claimant's few grand to live on as being a 'sponger'?
Why should tax payers fund some MP's second home refurbishment? How does this compare to the quality of accommodation given to, say, the armed forces.
How can an MP who's say squandered £1000's on buying the latest up to date kitchen in all conscience talk about an IB claimant's few grand to live on as being a 'sponger'?
We had a really great thread on MPs' salaries just recently.
All the arguments have been done there.
All the arguments have been done there.
Why do you think unelected people should get more than elected ones....
untethered
For industry & decency
Because being elected isn't the highest social value.
And elected to what? The parish council? Should a parish councillor earn more than the chief executive of the NHS or the Chief of the Defence Staff? Should an MP?
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
What a crass comment.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
So, we can't discuss it then?
Someone told me the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are red herrings.
So why is there such an obsession with MPs pay and wages?
Personally i always supported militants idea of a workers MP on a workers wage.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
A worker with a £10,000 kitchen. Jamie Oliver maybe?
Fixed
untethered
For industry & decency
Fixed
Don't fool around with my quotations, thanks.
Why do MP'S get to set these allowance figures themselves?Why doesn't an independant body do it?And yes we are fucked from all sides in this country but today came the story of MP's shafting us and thats why its been mentioned,You cant come out and say that it shouldn't be an issue cos other people rip us off,And say leave MP's alone cos they aren't the only ones,There all cunt's,Standing their spouting of about the economy,Money's tight,Taxes have to rise,Public spending is cut here there and everywhere and at the same time they are down the high street spending your hard earned on a fucking widescreen tv.
£22000 is the amount allowed just for the second home,The worst mps in the country rack up expense bills in excess of £150000,Which is bad news,One post i read on here was almost sticking up for the twats cos they only spent a small percentage of the total tax,They shouldnt get to waste one fuckin penny of money thats not theirs.
£22000 is the amount allowed just for the second home,The worst mps in the country rack up expense bills in excess of £150000,Which is bad news,One post i read on here was almost sticking up for the twats cos they only spent a small percentage of the total tax,They shouldnt get to waste one fuckin penny of money thats not theirs.
True dat.
Yes,James Purnell DWP Secretary, is one of the biggest culprits, yet this is the man who is busy cutting benefits, harrassing claimants and banging on about benefit fraud.Why did he get away with it and Haindidt
February 10, 2008
James Purnell's £20,000 tax trick
Marie Woolf and Holly Watt
JAMES PURNELL, a rising cabinet star, was plunged into a new row this weekend about MPs’ expenses over his ownership of two properties.
The controversy centres on a flat that he bought in London before becoming an MP and his Manchester constituency home, which he acquired several years later. He was able to claim thousands of pounds of MPs’ expenses on the London home and is accused of exploiting a tax loophole to avoid a huge bill on its sale.
Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, received about £20,000 a year in allowances on the London flat because he had told the Commons authorities it was his second home.
But when he sold the flat in October 2004 he told the Revenue that it qualified as his main home, allowing him to escape thousands of pounds in capital gains tax charges, which can be levied at up to 40%.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3342043.ece
February 10, 2008
James Purnell's £20,000 tax trick
Marie Woolf and Holly Watt
JAMES PURNELL, a rising cabinet star, was plunged into a new row this weekend about MPs’ expenses over his ownership of two properties.
The controversy centres on a flat that he bought in London before becoming an MP and his Manchester constituency home, which he acquired several years later. He was able to claim thousands of pounds of MPs’ expenses on the London home and is accused of exploiting a tax loophole to avoid a huge bill on its sale.
Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, received about £20,000 a year in allowances on the London flat because he had told the Commons authorities it was his second home.
But when he sold the flat in October 2004 he told the Revenue that it qualified as his main home, allowing him to escape thousands of pounds in capital gains tax charges, which can be levied at up to 40%.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3342043.ece
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Don't fool around with his quotations, please.
untethered
For industry & decency
Or you could just comply with a polite request to behave yourself.
Would that be better? I think so.
audiotech
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Reasons for filing this report:
I have women like hormones
I am a queer
I am a little bitch
Real man?
What's all that about?
Nah, I reckon my way works better.
untethered
For industry & decency
So once I've filled out the form do I send it to the mods or to you?
It's jolly confusing!
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
few i imagine he get's 3 saleries doesn't he...
1 mp salery
1 pm salery
1 lord master of her majersties treasurary (or whatever te poncey name is) salery
audiotech
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Just the title and the ABC questions. The rest of it's incredibly juvenile don't you think?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
oh grow the flying fuck up...
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Wanker.
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