Shall we have another MP expenses thread then?
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taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Submitting for expenses that are illigit such as Smiths porn films and half Straws council tax is fraudulent. Period. Might be borne of ignorance but that doesnt get us serfs off the hook. It's not just that the rules are generally vague it's that the political and financial elite can do what they like and we, the profane mass, can go fuck ourselves (just as long as we pay up of course).
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Has anyone noticed how all of the parliamentary parties are keeping schtum on this? Anyone would think they had something to hide. 
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Has anyone noticed how all of the parliamentary parties are keeping schtum on this? Anyone would think they had something to hide.
no mileage in it is there, the 3 leaders know that one of their own is going to get collared at some point
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Or one of them - Clegg had his own issues with home renovations a couple of years ago.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
all the parties are at it tbf
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Yup.
I heard Mandy on the radio this morning, going on the attack. What irritates me is that the things they think it's "perfectly legitimate" to claim on expenses aren't expenses in the sense that the rest of us would understand. Why on earth would you claim cleaning bills on expenses? It isn't as if it was for Number 10, which is is used for official duties. It was for his other flat.
Who else would get away with putting that through expenses?
"Can I have a word about your expenses claims?"
"Yes, what's the problem?"
"These items...cleaning?"
"Yes, I've got a cleaner at home. The house gets a bit untidy".
"And how was that expended in the furtherance of your work duties?"
"Well, you know, I'm quite tired when I get home, and can't really be doing dusting and stuff."
I mean, Gordo gets £187, 611 of a salary. Surely he can pay his cleaner out of that?
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
My favourite was Eric Pickles trying to justify claiming for a second home when he lives 37 miles away from Westminster.
Eric Pickles "....Because the House of Commons works on clockwork: you have to be there, if you're on a committee, you have to be there precisely. Particularly for someone like me, I was a number two -"
David Dimbleby: "Like a job, in other words?"
Eric Pickles "....Because the House of Commons works on clockwork: you have to be there, if you're on a committee, you have to be there precisely. Particularly for someone like me, I was a number two -"
David Dimbleby: "Like a job, in other words?"
Prince Rhyus
Spokesman of King Antonio
Comments really kicking off on Martin Bell's piece in the Graun.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/08/mps-expenses-labour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/08/mps-expenses-labour
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yep.
LoveMeDont
Active Member
According to The Guardian, the House of Commons was told a few weeks ago that leaking MP's expenses to the press wasn't a crime.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/may/08/mps-expenses-leak-police-investigation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/may/08/mps-expenses-leak-police-investigation
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
We don't just suddenly turn and accuse the current crop of corruption.
How long have rules been in place that allow this corruption?
It is corruption, no doubt. Sadly it is currently legal, I'm sure. It wasn't put in place by Brown and his cronies, I'm fairly sure.
Change the laws...hold those cunts that passed this as legal to account. Don't fall for anything else.
How long have rules been in place that allow this corruption?
It is corruption, no doubt. Sadly it is currently legal, I'm sure. It wasn't put in place by Brown and his cronies, I'm fairly sure.
Change the laws...hold those cunts that passed this as legal to account. Don't fall for anything else.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Yep.
LoveMeDont
Active Member
The worst one I have seen so far is Margaret Moran redesignating her seaside holiday home as her second home a few days before getting it treated for dry rot to the cost of £20,000.
scifisam
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http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6504509
apart from the fact that the rental on that "second home" is probably around £6000 a year, and she claimed nearly £30,000, as a council tenant, she should be using this home as her principal home, and not claiming to the lords that it is her second home - so could get evicted (although I doubt it will come to that as her husband is the joint tenant
not the brightest button though
Bloody Hell. I guess those right-wingers were right when they said that council estates were full of people sponging off the government.
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
The whole concept of them re-designating homes and then having them done up must surely be illegal. They claim that they have broken no rules but how can it not be fraudulent if it can be shown the re-designation was purely to extract public cash?
I mean if you have two homes you pay 2 council taxes. However if you claim one home is left empty you get 6 months free council tax on that house. Claim that you swap houses every six months and see how long it takes for your council to haul you before a court.
What's really striking is how they're defending themselves by stating that they acted within the rules, whilst acknowledging that the rules are bent to fuck. It might be legal to fuck an 11 year old in Saudi Arabia, don't mean you ain't a paedo if you do.
I mean if you have two homes you pay 2 council taxes. However if you claim one home is left empty you get 6 months free council tax on that house. Claim that you swap houses every six months and see how long it takes for your council to haul you before a court.
What's really striking is how they're defending themselves by stating that they acted within the rules, whilst acknowledging that the rules are bent to fuck. It might be legal to fuck an 11 year old in Saudi Arabia, don't mean you ain't a paedo if you do.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
The multi-millionaire tourism minister Barbara Follett forced the public to pay for her protection because she felt unsafe after being mugged and followed by a stalker.
But critics questioned why the wife of bestselling author Ken Follett, whose income has been put at £13 million a year by Forbes, had decided to live in the dangerous London nightspot of Soho if she felt unsafe, rather than at one of her other four homes.
The total cost of the security patrols between 2004 and 2008 was £25,411.64.
She also claimed £528.75 to repair and clean a Chinese needlepoint rug, but was only paid back £300 after the cost was deemed excessive.
I wonder if she feels safe from attack now??
But critics questioned why the wife of bestselling author Ken Follett, whose income has been put at £13 million a year by Forbes, had decided to live in the dangerous London nightspot of Soho if she felt unsafe, rather than at one of her other four homes.
The total cost of the security patrols between 2004 and 2008 was £25,411.64.
She also claimed £528.75 to repair and clean a Chinese needlepoint rug, but was only paid back £300 after the cost was deemed excessive.
I wonder if she feels safe from attack now??
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“the negation of force; the elimination of all authority in social affairs; it is the denial of the right of domination of one man over another. It is the diffusion of rights, of power, of duties, equally and freely among all the people.”
Albert R. Parson
“the negation of force; the elimination of all authority in social affairs; it is the denial of the right of domination of one man over another. It is the diffusion of rights, of power, of duties, equally and freely among all the people.”
Albert R. Parson
All parties are in it. Remember Michael Trend?
And from the Telegraph article:
But I'm particularly disappointed with Ms Moran, as she's my local MP.
Edit: I don't see why any MP within a 90 minute commute of the House should have a second home. Remember that 90 minutes is the commuting limit the Job Centre allows job seekers.
And from the Telegraph article:
Telegraph said:
But I'm particularly disappointed with Ms Moran, as she's my local MP.
Edit: I don't see why any MP within a 90 minute commute of the House should have a second home. Remember that 90 minutes is the commuting limit the Job Centre allows job seekers.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
To be fair, if you've read any of her husband's books, you'd realise why security was necessary, they're that bad!
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