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IS HIDING EXPENSES THE MOST SHAMEFUL MOVE BY MPS YET?

Millionaire MP Barbara Follett claimed £1,700 for window cleaning

Sunday May 25,2008

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TODAY the Sunday Express reported that MPs will try to use European human rights laws in a last-ditch bid to block the publication of their controversial expenses.

The news comes amid fears that MPs could face a major backlash if plans to release full details of their housing expenses go ahead in the autumn.

Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers' Alliance said: “It just shows how completely out of touch they are with the public mood.

"The public want to see politics cleaned up and that has to start with the publication of these expenses in full."

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT MPS ARE SPENDING YOUR MONEY ON?

IS IT THEIR 'HUMAN RIGHT' TO STOP PUBLICATION OF THEIR EXPENSES?

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GOVERMENT EXPENSES PLUS

15.06.08, 4:33am

we have a goverment that,s 100percent behind the uk public,except in the cases of 1,them selves they tell us inflation is running at 2percent/so as us the public will only get a rise of that.Secondly should they not set us the example of do in the same,they are get in extras 22 thousand for there second homes, plus a wage most of us can only dream of,yes they get a wage allready,we have to live and buget all the time so what is the extras for they get a wage free fuel if they work from home when does this corruption stop at who,s door, they all ready live on expenses so I ask whats there wages for.

• Posted by: stickeystiffy • Report Comment

"ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY TRAIN" ( AMENDED)

06.06.08, 8:46am

Amended again because another so called MP/MEP, "comes out of the woodwork."

MPS & MEPS - "ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY TRAIN!"
03.06.08, 9:25pm

Labour MPs and (MEPs) are a disgrace, they "self police" and therefore operate as a law unto themselves, I find it hard to believe that MPs have the right ("or have given themselves the right!") to set their own wage level & expense budget without some form of "external" audit, or at least a performance related pay scheme to gauge an MPs effectiveness, I think lack of principles and sleaze runs deep in todays politicians, exorbitant expense claims, MPs employing non existent offspring to name a few are all testament to the real "core values of todays MPs who no longer view the role of a British MP/MEP as an honour and a way to serve the Great British public but instead see it as a way to obtain privillages and ride the "Gravy train". Time and again MPs have been proven to be less than trustworthy which in any other profession would call for a competency criteria review and greater monitoring of these so called "principled leaders of democracy" and not by themselves or by any other linked "in their pocket bodies" but a real unbiased external auditor.

How can the goverment justify spending over £100,000+ of tax payers money in an attempt to keep their expenses secret?, ("The Masons are more transparent than an MPs/MEPs allowances"),
who in this day and age is given an open cheque book to the tune of 23,000+ p/a to go shopping with no receipts required? and all this underwritten by the tax payer. This type of self-regulation by MPs stinks of "nod's, winks and shady behind the scenes deals between themselves, a perfect example of self-aggrandizement.

(Q) How often do MPs attend Parliment?, lets say once or twice a week at most, why don't they stay in a Hotel?, (Ps....Ritz, Hilton or any other luxury hotel most definately excluded). Why not follow standard business practice?, if i work away i stay in a hotel, there is absolutely no plausable reason for British MPs to have expensive tax payer funded second homes, all around hard working UK citizens are losing their homes it's just another case of double standards, the Labour Party motto should be "LET THEM EAT CAKE!"

• Posted by: Chris_Hickman
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Named & Shamed

(1st Amendment - MEP Giles Chichester made on 05.06.08)

BRUSSELS (AFP) - MEP Giles Chichester on Thursday stood down as head of British conservatives at the European Parliament after admitting breaking assembly rules on expenses.
Chichester, an MEP since 1994, has been using a firm founded by his father, late round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester, to channel staff allowances. (£450,000+).

"A man put in place to make more MEPs expenses more transparent - I rest my case."
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(2nd Amendment - Den Dover MEP 06.06.08)

Den Dover MEP, over the last 9 years this MEP has paid over £750,000 to his familly?, his wife and his daughter to be precise (i.e) The familly business for secreterial services, that is £41.500 per secretary p/a, for the last 9 years.

(Q) Which came first the secretarial business or the MEP job?, was one created around the other?. The worst thing about this is that "Den Dover MEP" claims he has done nothing wrong? and technically he hasn't, what he and his "ilk" have done is abuse and manipulate a poorly regulated expenses system, for his own gains. Why because he new he could get away with it, and why hasn't something been done about it over the years? why hasn't it been addressed? The expense claim system is left "intentionally"
open to abuse by the people who profit from it, MPs & MEPs are well aware of the loop holes and weaknesses when it comes to claiming expenses, this is seen as a "perk" and is part of "their culture," turning a "blind eye" to any indiscretions because they are "all queuing at the trough."

MPs & MEPs in a word = "immoral".

• Posted by: Chris_Hickman

• Posted by: Chris_Hickman • Report Comment

THINGS WERE SO MUCH BETTER UNDER THE CONSERVATIVES

03.06.08, 4:07am

LOATHSOME LABOUR
29.05.08, 12:07pm

The loathsome Barbara Follett is my MP, she has a 3 million pound mansion in Knebworth, a house in South Africa, a house in the Antigua, an apartment in London. She claimed that she doesn’t take her £60,000 wage but uses her wage to run her Stevenage office and that her husband Ken donates another £100k to her campaign both of which were undisclosed and illegal.
But with New Labour honesty doesn’t appear to play any part.

• Posted by: anglosaxon1 • Report Comment

About time we had some decent moral values in the government. Bring back Geoffry Archer, Johnathon Aitkin and that bloke with the bossy wife who used to get wads of cash in brown paper envelopes off Al Fyad who's name I can't remember.
(hate it when that happens... I can picture his sleazy mummy's-boy face really clearly but the name won't come).

• Posted by: Meyhico_Pedro • Report Comment

SHAME

02.06.08, 2:48pm

The MPs do not know the meaning of the word,I do not know how they can sleep at night.
They most definitely have something to hide if they are fighting to keep their expenses hidden.
At one time all local Mps worked for us and our country in their spare time, and did claim for their expenses which were printed yearly in the local newspaper for all to see,these MPs weren't in it just to line their own pockets,to rip us off.
What about our human rights, our hard earned taxes.
The MPs make us more and more ashamed to be British by this disgusting behavior.

• Posted by: jenny60l • Report Comment

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02.06.08, 8:15am

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• Posted by: hadenough • Report Comment

MP'S EXPENSES

01.06.08, 8:40am

These people have no morals or shame with regard to the expenses they claim which is outrageous, as everybody says PIGS WITH THEIR NOSES DEEP IN THE TROUGH

• Posted by: harold40 • Report Comment