Expense Claims...

[Barman]

Dominoes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8070742.stm

Announcing her decision, she said she "must take into account the effects on my family" of the row.

Keep digging love! Never mind your constituents and the tax payers that funded your largesse... 

[Uncle Mort]

Dominoes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8070742.stm

Announcing her decision, she said she "must take into account the effects on my family" of the row.

Keep digging love! Never mind your constituents and the tax payers that funded your largesse... 

Still digging:

"But until this week's furore, it didn't cross my mind that I had done anything wrong."

[Uncle Mort]

They are not exactly poorly paid, even without expenses.

 

[Barman]

They are not exactly poorly paid, even without expenses.

 

Yes, but all that responsibility Uncle... 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Not to mention the pressure of filling out expense claims.

[Barman]

Not to mention the pressure of filling out expense claims.

I thought you said not to mention it??? 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

   You haven't seen me, right.

[Uncle Mort]

You do appear to be a 'leg-end' 

[Barman]

No 10 defends ministers over tax

Downing Street has said that "to the best of our knowledge" ministers named in the Daily Telegraph "appear to have honoured their tax liabilities".

"We are in the process of checking whether ministers... are paying the tax that is due," a spokesman added.

More than 40 Labour ministers were reimbursed for help with tax returns.

Source

Keep digging!  

Of course it is perfectly normal for everybody to do this...  

I've just had the valuer around to value the contents of my stepfather's house... He has to actually come in and rummage through the draws and cupboards to ensure that the government gets its 40% of everything that the old man had saved up for (out of his taxed earnings)...

And this lot twist and fiddle and lie to extract every last penny out of taxpayers like my stepfather...  

They're not worthy to lick his boots clean - none of them.

[Miss Demeanour]

The MPs who stand down following the expenses scandal will cost the taxpayer more than £1 million over the next year.

Conservative Julie Kirkbride and Labour's Margaret Moran have become the latest to succumb to intense public pressure and have announced they will not be standing at the next General Election.

Ten other MPs are also stepping down following the revelations in the Daily Telegraph.

It has emerged they will each receive salaries and gold-plated pensions as well as generous "redundancy" pay-outs of between £32,000 and £65,000 when they leave office.


 

[Barman]

They should all be hanged... I'm sure the taxpayers would endorse a long length of strong rope...

They pretty much all got a good kicking on QT last night - the worms are definitely turning...

[Grumpmeister]

I don't think they should be hanged, a far more appropriate punishment would be to ban them from claiming any expenses, cancel any pension or payout, pay then the minimum wage (suspending it entirely if they don't do their job) till they go, ban them from taking on any extra jobs and if they go before a general election make them pay the admin costs if they quit beforehand & trigger a byelection.

[Barman]

I don't think they should be hanged, a far more appropriate punishment would be to ban them from claiming any expenses, cancel any pension or payout, pay then the minimum wage (suspending it entirely if they don't do their job) till they go, ban them from taking on any extra jobs and if they go before a general election make them pay the admin costs if they quit beforehand & trigger a byelection.

Or simply hang them...? 

[Nick]

[The Moan Ranger]

Tom Brake just knocked on my door asking for my support in the up-comming polls.

I don't think he was ready for the volley of abuse that issued forth. After ten minutes two PCSOs turned up and lurked menacingly in the background. He scurried off muttering about "other constituents to meet"