Expense Claims...

[Uncle Mort]

Has he actually 'misclaimed' any expenses though? 

[Barman]

Has he actually 'misclaimed' any expenses though? 

Whoo cares Uncle? String im up with the rest of them! 

[The Moan Ranger]

Has he actually 'misclaimed' any expenses though? 

No, he's squeaky clean - and I let him know that I knew that; my abuse was aimed at the whole squalid bunch of them in Westminster.

[Uncle Mort]

Good man 

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

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.


 

You are right Miss D, if they don't leave before the next General Election then the poor dears get loads of our money to help them adjust to normal life, golden handshakes, to keep them comfortable in whichever of their homes they choose to live in. I wonder why they are all clinging on for dear life, I'm sure it must be because they don't want to leave us in the lurch and in turmoil. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8074351.stm

[Snoopy]

Given the state of the country's finances thanks to Gordon Brown a few millions more is not going to make a whole lot of difference TBH.

Let them dig the hole as deep as they can then bury them 

[Snoopy]

Finally today's Telegraph carries details of my local trougher's expenses. He has maxed out his second home allowance and has a high travel and postage claim but they don't seem to have spotted anything worth stabbing him for. I am not sure whether to be pleased as he, tho' labour, is a good constituency MP or worried because he has been too dense to spot the chance to line his pockets ~ but then he is a teacher by profession.

I still won't vote for the arse!

[Nick]

Mine seems comparatively untainted, but the devil is in the details, as we have learnt

[Barman]

Darling in further expense claims

Chancellor Alastair Darling is facing further potentially damaging allegations about his expenses.

The Daily Telegraph says he claimed for costs on a flat in south London while claiming allowances on his grace-and-favour home in Downing Street.

Source

A spokesman for Mr Darling said the allegations were "simply untrue".

True then... 

[Grumpmeister]

Go Paxman, Harman is getting royally stuffed on Newsnight. Stupid tart is about as convincing as Del Boy.

Darling is buggered though, she is refusing to comment on his future.

[Barman]

Sir, There has been much discussion as to the number of MPs who deserve censure. I suggest the following answer. There was a crucial vote on the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill on May 18, 2007, a Bill designed to prevent the FoI Act being applied to MPs’ expenses. Only 25 MPs opposed this Bill. Thus, 96 per cent of MPs showed distressingly little interest in the public’s right to know about their expenses. We may take that figure as an approximate indication of the percentage of MPs deserving of censure.

Source

 

Excellent letter in The Times yesterday...

[Snoopy]

RESULT!

Patricia Hewitt, the former Cabinet minister, is the latest MP to announce she is standing down at the next election.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/5427438/Patricia-Hewitt-to-stand-down-as-MP-at-general-election.html

Nick WILL be pleased!








PS She says it is nothing to do with Expenses ~ She wants to spend more time with her family!  Of course we believe you Patsy 

[Uncle Mort]

But:

She today said that her decision had nothing to do with the on-going MPs' expenses scandal.

and

She said she wanted to spend more time with her husband, Bill, and children, Alex and Nick.

Of course dear, of course.

[Snoopy]

Two minds with but one thought Uncle.

[Uncle Mort]

Another one:

Children's minister Beverley Hughes has also announced said she will stand down due to "family circumstances".