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Post by skoda on May 8, 2009 17:53:47 GMT
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Post by pretender on May 8, 2009 17:59:39 GMT
why did the replacement bog seat have to be Prescotts? ;D I mean, it just has to be him, he could claim for something half sensible.
Prescott + Claim = Bog seat ;D
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Post by stockslave on May 8, 2009 20:47:49 GMT
The mind boogles. What on earth is he doing with his toilet seats to need them repaired twice?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2009 21:22:20 GMT
Oh stockslave, I'm supposed to be going to bed, don't want bad dreams!
Joyce
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Post by stockslave on May 9, 2009 4:31:40 GMT
Oops, sorry Joyce. I hope you slept well.  |
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Post by matthew on May 9, 2009 7:16:28 GMT
All this unravelling of MPs' purchased trivia, dressed up and docketed as 'expenses' makes me think that these people view their salaries as pocket money. We pay them a wage, and then all their living expenses on top?
The rest of us have to fund our living expenses out of that sum, loo seats included.
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Post by cidergirl on May 10, 2009 13:31:18 GMT
Exactly right Matthew.
Almost every MP when asked about the expenses they have claimed have replied with a similar comment saying that they have acted within the rules, and of course they made the rules themselves so they made sure they could claim all these things.
Sack the lot of them !!
CG
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Post by skoda on May 10, 2009 15:53:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2009 6:52:53 GMT
Yes, MP's of all party's have their noses in the trough. Not all of them, mind, but enough to get everyone tarred with the same brush.
They are seduced by the system. I am sure that no newly elected M.P. goes to the House of Commons with the intention of making huge expenses claims; but after a while, when they see what is going on around them by the 'old hands', they slowly get caught in the web. Once embroiled, it is too late.
Having seen what is going on, it is shameful. No wonder some M.P.s did not want the system to be opened up to public scrutiny.
This has to be changed, and changed now. Not a knee jerk overhaul of the system, but a properly thought through total overhaul. Then, and only then, might the British people start to have some sort of respect for their elected representatrives.
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John-Gummer-claimed-more than 9000 a year for gardening on MPs expenses 