Car Travel Of MP!!!

BERNADETTE · 27-10-2007, 19:05

Just read a report in the Telegraph, Blackburn And Rossendale MP Janet Annderson has claimed nearly £14,000 Mileage on her expenses. In this day and age when we all we seem to hear about is Global Warming is it not about time that she started using public transport more often?

jambutty · 29-10-2007, 21:02

It’s Darwen and Rossendale BERNADETTE. Jack Straw is MP for Blackburn. It’s one of the strange constituency boundaries that were fiddled into place to ensure that a particular political party was guaranteed a seat in Parliament.

£14K is nothing compared to some expenses claims and she does have to travel from down there to up here. And there is no chance of seeing her on anything as common as a bus. Buses are for us peasants.

BERNADETTE · 29-10-2007, 21:10

Sorry it is Darwen and Rossendale. That is just for using her car, I am not disputing the expenses. I was just wondering why can she not use the train to travel to and from Westminster? Lots of other MP's do and after all we are being warned about traffic pollution all the time.

jambutty · 29-10-2007, 21:21

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Sorry it is Darwen and Rossendale. That is just for using her car, I am not disputing the expenses. I was just wondering why can she not use the train to travel to and from Westminster? Lots of other MP's do and after all we are being warned about traffic pollution all the time.

I know – you put Blackburn just to see if I were awake.

It’s the do as I say not as I do mentality prevalent in the House today, especially at the top.

steeljack · 29-10-2007, 21:29

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It’s one of the strange constituency boundaries that were fiddled into place to ensure that a particular political party was guaranteed a seat in Parliament.

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Darwen and Rossendale.......thats one of those places that used to be marked on maps as Terra Incognito with warnings ....beware Dragons and Monsters live here

sorry for the wander

jambutty · 29-10-2007, 21:35

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Darwen and Rossendale.......thats one of those places that used to be marked on maps as Terra Incognito with warnings ....beware Dragons and Monsters live here

sorry for the wander

Better than having pimps and poofters on the Pacific shore.

BERNADETTE · 29-10-2007, 21:36

In fact adding up all her expenses the total is £19:968. Jack Straws come to £9:250, now I am wondering why such a big difference?

steeljack · 29-10-2007, 21:37

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Better than having pimps and poofters on the Pacific shore.

the correct term is ....fruits, nuts and flakes

jambutty · 29-10-2007, 21:45

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the correct term is ....fruits, nuts and flakes

I though they were chocolate.

shillelagh · 29-10-2007, 23:34

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Originally Posted by steeljack

Darwen and Rossendale.......thats one of those places that used to be marked on maps as Terra Incognito with warnings ....beware Dragons and Monsters live here

sorry for the wander

Thanks Steeljack.

Does this mean im going to have to find a dragon or a monster for an avatar then?

By the way even though i live in Rossendale my MP is Greg Pope.

Ianto.W. · 30-10-2007, 00:28

Never mind car expenses what about postage, I wonder how much they charge for sending E Mails?

BERNADETTE · 07-11-2007, 18:12

Not raising another thread so thought I'd add it on here. MP's have just voted theirselves another weeks holiday per year. They will now be getting 91 days!! That is four times as much as the average worker gets!!!

blazey · 07-11-2007, 19:45

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Originally Posted by jambutty

It’s Darwen and Rossendale BERNADETTE. Jack Straw is MP for Blackburn. It’s one of the strange constituency boundaries that were fiddled into place to ensure that a particular political party was guaranteed a seat in Parliament.

£14K is nothing compared to some expenses claims and she does have to travel from down there to up here. And there is no chance of seeing her on anything as common as a bus. Buses are for us peasants.

My boyfriend and his family wont even be seen on a bus, so its not surprising that she wont get on one either

Neil · 07-11-2007, 19:56

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Not raising another thread so thought I'd add it on here. MP's have just voted theirselves another weeks holiday per year. They will now be getting 91 days!! That is four times as much as the average worker gets!!!

Is being an MP classed as a real job? Do some MP's have real jobs as well? is that 91 days when there is no Parliament sitting? I am sure you can still access your MP when they are 'on holiday', can't you?

Gayle · 07-11-2007, 20:22

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In fact adding up all her expenses the total is £19:968. Jack Straws come to £9:250, now I am wondering why such a big difference?

Perhaps instead of questioning why Janet Anderson's travel expenses come to almost £20k, you could perhaps be asking if Jack Straw travels down there half as many times?

The simple fact is that we live a long way away from London. If we lived in Tower Hamlets then you could perhaps question it but really is it that unreasonable.