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Old 31-05-2009, 21:18   #258
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Re: £10,000 offered to leak MP's expenses

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post

They should be made to live on a basic pension, or invalidity benefit for a few weeks and then they would find it easy to live off their salaries.
That is the flip side of the scale as me comparing Susan Boyle's forecasted income to an M.P's (agree it was irrelevant)

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
Kate, the journalists are not paid out of the public purse and if they were caught they would at least be dealt with justly, by being deprived of their job....they would not be able to sit tight and wait for a golden goodbye and a fat pension.
Yes, they are living off the public purse ... gaining income that they are not paying Income Tax on e.g. blank taxi fare receipts is a common fiddle... double fraud, cheating the company, cheating the tax man ...... I've been offered these on many occasions.

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Originally Posted by Neil View Post
Put me down as a not cheated my expenses please.
Sure you are as pure as the driven snow Neil.
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