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340 MPs get their energy bills paid on EXPENSES

voucher
voucher Posts: 120 Forumite
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340 MPs get their energy bills paid on EXPENSES to heat second homes - with one claiming £5,822

A Sunday Mirror investigation exposed millionaire Tory who claimed a staggering £5,822 in just 12 months – more than four times the average household energy bill



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/340-mps-energy-bills-paid-2671053
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague

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  • Andy_L
    Andy_L Posts: 13,168 Forumite
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    and the difference between them claiming for energy bills as opposed rent/water/council tax etc would be what ?
  • UKGuy
    UKGuy Posts: 15,571 Forumite
    Andy_L wrote: »
    and the difference between them claiming for energy bills as opposed rent/water/council tax etc would be what ?

    Nothing, they shouldn't be allowed to claim for anything, their salary's more than enough to cover all of it! :p
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    Solution to fuel poverty:

    1. Switch your supplier
    2. Become an MP

    Both reasonable and imminently do-able for David Cameron.
  • Andy_WSM
    Andy_WSM Posts: 2,217 Forumite
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    Can't keep these pigs out the troughs...
  • brewerdave
    brewerdave Posts: 8,993 Forumite
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    Had to larf when I saw Peter Hain trying to justify HIS claim of £4500+ in South Wales...........apparently he has to buy a particular sort of fuel for his home heating!...........:rotfl:
  • mha_2
    mha_2 Posts: 708 Forumite
    Andy_WSM wrote: »
    Can't keep these pigs out the troughs...
    Who? Mp's or the long-term unemployed? :D
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