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I think you will find that some peoples wages are boosted by there expenses. That is the whole idea of it in some companies, mainly because they can claim VAT back and don't have to pay national insurance and pension contributions on the expenses.

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Put me down as a not cheated my expenses please.

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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)

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.

Sure you are as pure as the driven snow Neil. :D

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No I am not ;) but I would not risk loosing my job for a few quid.

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Ya Rindi, but I don't know about you but its now getting boring now, in fact I just don't bother listened to the stories on the news anymore:(

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I've always said that councillors earn every penny they get Bernard, irrespective of party, its the hardest job in the world working for the general public, because your damned if you do and damned if you don't

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It is fraud if an MP deliberately falsified claims for money that had not been spent. One of the MPs submitted a bank statement saying that one of the transactions was a mortgage payment to a building society, when in fact it was a payment into a savings account.

If the rules allowed for extravagant expenditure to be paid for from the public purse, it is not fraud as such, but it raises a question of whether the spending was essential for the carrying out of the MPs work, or whether it was a benefit in kind that the MP should have declared for income tax. They may have opened themselves up to a charge of tax evasion.

It is the arrogant way that each MP who has been found out squirms with his answers to the TV interviewer. Bill Cash was excruciating.












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just watched Paxman questioning William Hague about his friend..a tory MP that has been fiddling expenses and don't even live in this country...first time i've seen sweat drippin from his bald head..and he's only fourteen! great stuff :D

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here come the girls!


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A bit better than the big girls blouses that frequent Downing Street at the moment :D:p

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Why the 3 Stooges can you not do better than that? :p

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Looks like they're of on a shopping trip Spugs, bet they're looking for a new Plasma TV. and a couple of nice pictures for their London homes:rolleyes::rolleyes: :D

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Greg Pope has published an apology in the Observer for buying items for his second home on his expenses account. He says he knew as soon as he made the purchases he shouldn't have put them through his expenses account and started the process to repay the money he had claimed. However he claims that he hasn't "broken any rules" but if he truly believes that is the case why apologise and arrange to pay the money ? I find this whole charade an insult to my intelligence!!! Am I alone in feeling this way?

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No you're not.

I'd honestly have more respect for someone who had the balls to admit they had been sheep, who'd participated in a system they knew was flawed, but didn't technically break any of the self imposed rules, and weren't going to repay the damned money.

Why pay back any money now, only because the issue is in the public domain?

It's rather like Germans protesting after 1945, that they'd only been obeying orders.

Let's hope tomorrow's election results are the kick in the arse that many mainstream politicans need.

If after being elected by us, they then make laws and moralise to the general public, they'd better make sure they themselves are both moral, and live within the law.

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Hyndburn Constituency.

Our M P has regrets over expenses. But it leaves questions unanswered; he moved his second home; second homes? He bought things for this move but did he walk out of the first second home with just his clothes and what happened to furnishing ‘left behind?’ Or where they left behind? Ebay? And how often are they ‘allowed’ to claim for such moves?

And with all the fuss about expenses why did he wait to explain about his expenses till; possible hoping against hope that as a back bencher his expenses would not be highlighted; and made his explanation needed?



And what about the Olympics? Will some M Ps rent out at vastly inflated rents these vitally necessary second homes and if so who will get the rents?

To be honest and to stay within the rules of decency that should go into the national purse and not into the coffers of the greedy.


If some ‘independent’ body sets the Pay and conditions for M Ps at an industry level then industry standards should also apply; the ability of the elector to remove; not after 2 - 3 – 4- years but at the time of any transgression or shift of allegiances from one party to another one.