Jacqui Smith?

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brazilianwax wrote: »

£116,000 over 4 years! Not per year! I've already shown that £25k a year is not difficult to rack up when you have a home in London and another elsewhere.

£25k a year (tax free... equal to over £30k PAYE) is not a bad little sum to put in your back pocket whilst sleeping in your sisters spare room either!

treliac

chewmylegoff wrote: »

wouldn't mind seeing them strung up by their feet with a cart of rotten fruit nearby.

You're being mean there. I'd at least allow them to be strung upright.

Churchmouse

I think a good deal of the problem here is the unfairness of it all. My husband's work transferred ( only 90 odd miles) but 12 hour shifts meant he had to live away while on shift. Not only did he have to pay rent for himself, and maintain the family home, but he also ( as the sole wage-earner) paid the rent for our eldest son at university. We did not get one penny in tax relief on these amounts, let alone huge tax-free allowances!! And all travel was paid for by us. He worked damn hard too!!! And for a lot less than an MP.

MrsE_2

brazilianwax wrote: »

£116,000 over 4 years! Not per year! I've already shown that £25k a year is not difficult to rack up when you have a home in London and another elsewhere.

Save money run one home, you can donate the money saved to charity.

shuze

leveller2911 wrote: »

Who make the rules??????? nothing will change until things have got so bad civil unrest rears its ugly head, then when those muppets feel personally at risk because the angry mobs know where they live ,then they will change the rules.Its so sad that it will more than likely come to that.

I don,t think anyone on here can justify what MP,s get away with, we all know the score its just that some on here are so wet and PC ..You will never get turkeys voting for Christmas..End of.As for tighening up the rules, they will always create rules to have built in loop-holes...

Who else CAN make the rules? You? The Daily Mail? The "angry mob"?

Graham_Devon

Still nothing has happened about her expenses?

Horace

You really didnt expect anything to happen did you? The labour government make the rules and she just abides by them:mad: Horrid woman, and her husband isnt well liked either because he writes stuff for the local paper and generally gets it wrong, the pair of them cause so much trouble between them. She lives in a lovely house too, police guard it I know because I have seen them when I have driven past. If she loves Peckham, why doesnt she wander around without a body guard and why doesnt she walk around the streets at night on her own? (is it because Peckham has the biggest population of nigerians outside of nigeria ).

Its not that expensive to get to London - she could hop on a train from Redditch (about £3) get off at New Street and then get the coach it stops in Victoria and its only a short walk to the Houses of Parliament from there a coach from Digbeth will cost her £10 at most.

prowla

Basically she is useless at her job and she is milking the system for all she can get.
She's not my MP, so I have no say in it.
And anyway, today's big story is a new stealth tax on booze.

Graham_Devon

Horace wrote: »

You really didnt expect anything to happen did you?

I'm usually extremely cynical. But unfortunateley, yes, I did expect some investigation into this. It is appauling nothing has happened and shes getting away with it.

The taxman wouldn't let it slip for any of us lot.

Spose it's a bit like that Lord the other day, cleared of dangerous driving after crashing and just having used his mobile. If I recall correctly, he was drunk too? Or Brunstorms daughter getting away with doing over 100mph on the M4, while people like myself are fully charged for doing 83mph on it.

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Graham_Devon wrote: »

When it's taxpayers money, and shes claiming 20k a year, for what is essentially a house share, out of taxpayers money, I think personally it's wrong.

Thats suggesting basically that house share with her sister is costing her roughly £1700 per month in rent.

And thats me being generous, as actually, shes not there 12 months of the year.

If she was claiming for the house share in London, she would not be able to claim so much, so shes maximising, at our expense.

Its not even a house share..