Mp's claiming 93 million in expenses.

Zagu

mizzbiz wrote: »

I can make £140k go a long, long way...........

:huh:
You just said that you'd do it for about £60k.


"i'll do the job for the salary minus expenses"


Only one MP, out of 646, would be able to make any money without their expenses.

bo_drinker

Anyone her know how to start a petition up and blitz all other sites you may visit then send it to no 10.

mizzbiz

Zagu wrote: »

:huh:
You just said that you'd do it for about £60k.


"i'll do the job for the salary minus expenses"


Only one MP, out of 646, would be able to make any money without their expenses.

I would do it for 60k, however, I didn't say I would. Ms Smith earns 140k.

Zagu

mizzbiz wrote: »

I would do it for 60k, however, I didn't say I would.

Yes you did. :rolleyes:

mizzbiz

mizzbiz wrote: »

They make me sick, that's all.

If you have a problem with no expenses, step down and i'll do the job for the salary minus expenses. i'd still be very well off.

greedy effers. Does anyone go into politics because they care about peope, the country and politics a it used to be anymore? It shouldn't be a career, it should be a belief in doing good.

In Ancient Greece, you didn't get paid for being a politician, you had to be a man of means (your own means) and be old enough and educated enough o have gathered wisdom. That's Democracy.

Where in the above do I say I would do Jacqui Smith's job for 60k? Pray tell... bl00dy 'ell, some people. Dog with a bone!

Zagu

Doesn't matter. We're probably better off sticking to the literate anyway, eh?

Old_Slaphead

Zagu wrote: »

Since when have expenses equated to 'perks'?!!

When they're not wholly and incurred "wholly, necessarily and exclusively incurred in the performance of their duties" and where they are not taxed as a benefit in kind.

Amazing how most of the MPs happened to claim fairly close to the maximum (coincidence?)


And why did Jackie Smith need an new 'antique' fireplace to do the work of a Home Secretary?

Old_Slaphead

Martinslovechild wrote: »

I'm still angry about Gordon Brown's £5 billion raid on pension pots back in 1997.

Nothing was done about that either...

Never mind MLC - this'll cheer you up

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166131/Taxpayer-stump-800-000-YEAR-bail-MPs-golden-pensions.html?ITO=1490

Note : there are 108 comments. I think the punters are getting a bit fed up with greedy MPs

Just had my PPP statement - been contributing every month (and some lump sums) for 9 years and my fund is worth precisely 1% more than I've actually paid in ! Cheers Gord !

Martinslovechild

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

Never mind MLC - this'll cheer you up

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166131/Taxpayer-stump-800-000-YEAR-bail-MPs-golden-pensions.html?ITO=1490

Note : there are 108 comments. I think the punters are getting a bit fed up with greedy MPs

Just had my PPP statement - been contribution every month (ansd some lump sums) for 9 years and my fund is worth precisely 1% more than I've actually paid in ! Cheers Gord !

_pale_

It's quite unbelieveable isn't it??

Labour appear to be writing their own destiny. And it's not good. With the General Election due next year, it would appear to be a case not of voting the Conservatives in, but voting Labour out.

beingjdc

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

Amazing how most of the MPs happened to claim fairly close to the maximum (coincidence?)

Are these expenses the ones that include staff costs? If so I'm not surprised most MPs claim close to the maximum - that'll account for 90% of it, and whatever argument we can have back and forth about housing allowances and so forth, an MP's staffing budget doesn't come anywhere close to covering what it would really cost to get the right staff to support an MP.

For most of them, that's the reason they end up employing family, it's not to give them a cushy job, a few bad apples excepted, it's because an MP's wife will put up with tuppence a fortnight to be a correspondence secretary / office manager / diary keeper / bag carrier if it means she gets to spend more time with her husband than the two nights a week he's in the constituency, and keep an eye on the flashy young interns he's taking on.

Similarly their policy and research staff tend to do the job for about 60% of the going rate, largely because of personal political ambitions and the prestige within that circle of having a job in Parliament, and because it's one of the easiest jobs in politics to combine with being politically active in your spare time, whereas for a lot of central or local government jobs that is frowned upon or in some cases completely banned.