Thread: Bye sleazy

Originally Posted by tankie

Hey Dave , who makes the rules , just remind me on will you

They make the rules..they give themselves pay rises, pension funds, expense accounts to the tune of £25.000 per house, per year, and that is just for fittings. Euro Mp's have expenses of over a £million and that is just expenses.

Originally Posted by Parihaka

I can't believe you guys have five year terms. If they can f**k it up in three years, why give them five?

We pick the Party they pick the Leader. We have nothing to do with it. Gordon Clown has messed the Country up in about 1 year and I'm surprised it took so long. There is an election in June next year and methinks it's the end of the road for the Lie bour Party.

PS. guess who made the 5 year rule

IT JUST GETS F######G BETTER AND BETTER £41 FOR A PUNCTURE A tyre can be bought for that , i hope the f######g lot of em burn , the bunch of ROBBING BASTARDS , like pigs in a trough

And while im having a RANT, these are the same pieces of excrement that wont allow Gurkhas to live here and send MEN and WOMEN off to to poxy wars with CRAP equipment the dirty low life f####### scum bags ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I HATE POLITICIANS rant over .



Shadow leader of the House Alan Duncan claimed thousands of pounds for his garden before agreeing with the fees office that the spending "could be considered excessive", it has been revealed. Skip related content
Millionaire Mr Duncan recouped £4,000 over three years.

However, a £3,194 bill for gardening in March 2007 was not paid after officials responded suggesting that the claim might not be "within the spirit" of the rules, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Mr Duncan apparently submitted receipts indicating his gardener was being paid £6 an hour for up to 16 hours a week, even though the property had grounds of less than an acre. In March 2007, Mr Duncan claimed £598 to overhaul a ride-on lawn-mower and then a further £41 to fix a puncture a month later.

Shadow minister David Willetts claimed £115 plus VAT to replace 25 light bulbs at his second home in west London.

Tory Chris Grayling received thousands of pounds to renovate a London flat 17 miles from his constituency home. He apparently already owned three properties within the M25, but bought the flat with loans subsidised by the taxpayer.

Francis Maude claimed almost £35,000 over two years for a mortgage on a London flat a few minutes walk from a house he already owned and then rented out. The taxpayer footed the £387.50 bill for moving his effects down the road.

George Osborne put in a £440.62 bill for a chauffeur company to drive him from Cheshire to London. Cheryl Gillan spent £4.47 of taxpayers' money on dog food, while Oliver Letwin claimed more than £2,000 to replace a leaking pipe under his tennis court.

Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has faced fresh embarrassment after a note explaining how he should apply his make-up was accidentally left in a taxi by a junior aide.

The confidential file, handed to The Sun newspaper by the cab driver, also contained notes on how to tackle the Westminster expenses claims controversy and a schedule for Mr Brown's visit to Yorkshire.


Makeup Should be applied with a SHOVEL ,,FORCEFULLY .

Shadow cabinet members are to pay back thousands of pounds in "excessive" expense claims, David Cameron has announced. David Cameron
The Conservative leader said a new scrutiny panel will be set up to assess all "excessive" expense claims by Tory MPs and where necessary order them to be repaid.

Any who refuse to return the cash will be stripped of the Tory whip and expelled from the parliamentary party, he told a Westminster news conference.

He said when he heard about claims for moats and swimming pools he was appalled. "I don't care if they were within the rules, they were wrong," he said.

Mr Cameron said he would personally pay back "the only maintenance bill I have claimed in eight years as a Member of Parliament", while shadow chancellor George Osborne would return the cost of "a particularly expensive car journey".

Under the new rules for the party, all Tory MPs will required publish all their expense claims on the internet as they make them.

Mr Cameron said: "I want to start by saying sorry, sorry that it has come to this, sorry for the actions of some Conservative MPs."

He said that of his shadow cabinet, Michael Gove would return £7,000 paid for furniture, Oliver Letwin £2,000 for the repair of a leaking pipe under his tennis court, Andrew Lansley £2,600 for home improvements, and Alan Duncan almost £5,000 for gardening expenses.

Francis Maude, Chris Grayling and Theresa Villiers would all stop claiming for second homes altogether.


Hmmmm the shit must be hitting all the fans :(:(

Dissolving Parliament could be the only way to rescue MPs' reputation amid growing public fury over the Westminster expenses gravy train, Gordon Brown has been warned.
With yet more senior politicians embroiled in the latest tranche of claims revelations, former Commons deputy Speaker Lord Naseby said an early general election was needed to save the "foundations of democracy".

The call came as the House authorities mounted a desperate rear-guard action to shore up trust in the allowances regime.

An independent audit unit is to be created - at a cost of £600,000 a year - to monitor claims.

Meanwhile, some "clean" MPs started venting their anger at colleagues for bringing the scandal upon them.

Lib Dem frontbencher Lynne Featherstone said she was "ashamed of my brethren", insisting they were getting "due punishment".

"You can or should be able, whatever your circumstances, be able to judge right from wrong," she told Sky News.

Labour backbencher Kate Hoey laid into millionaire tourism minister Barbara Follett for spending £25,000 on security patrols outside her Soho home.

"I would need to have someone really convince me that an MP can claim that amount of money for personal security, when I know that in my constituency I have women who walk home late at night who would love to have somebody paying for them to have personal security," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.



Sir Menzies Campbell tops the latest raft of MPs' expenses revelations after allegedly claiming £10,000 to hire a top designer to refurbish his London home. Lib Dems Claimed For 'Lavish Second Homes
Minister to repay avoided tax amid expenses row

The former Liberal Democrat leader used public cash for a new king-size bed

worth £1,024, Roman blinds worth £528.75, five cushions costing £176.25 and a

£1,515 decorating bill, The Daily Telegraph claims.

Party leader Nick Clegg wrongly claimed an £80 phone bill and is said to have exceeded the maximum possible claim on a second home by £100.

Among the other Daily Telegraph allegations are:

:: Chris Huhne MP claimed for a £119 trouser press and fluffy dusters delivered to his main home.

:: Lembit Opik MP claimed for a £40 court summons over non-payment of council tax, which he said he would repay.

:: Julia Goldsworthy MP, the Treasury spokeswoman, claimed for a leather rocking chair and also spent thousands of pounds just before the expenses deadline.

:: Andrew George MP claimed £847 a month in interest payments on a £300,000 Docklands flat allegedly used by his student daughter.

The revelations come as the sixth day of allegations made since the paper obtained a leaked list of MPs' expenses receipts.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat party leader, has apologised on behalf of all MPs over the expenses row.

He has also reportedly repaid £80 for a phone bill he wrongly claimed.

Earlier, launching his party's European election campaign, he said the expenses row had been a "train crash" waiting to happen.

He said: "What we are seeing now is the unravelling of a system that thrived in the shadows.

"I think it's incumbent on all politicians to say, 'Sorry, we got this spectacularly wrong'."

Mr George is said to be "very angry" that his daughter has been dragged in to the expenses row, saying the London flat is his and is legitimate.

But the home insurance policy included in his expense forms is in the name of his 21-year-old daughter, Morvah George.

The newspaper said the MP for St Ives admitted his daughter used the flat as a "bolt-hole" but denied she spent more time there than him.

Mr George said: "My flat is used as the base for my parliamentary work.

"It is a shame that the Daily Telegraph's desire for coverage at any price has meant they feel free to drag my family into a story when I have done absolutely nothing wrong."

Sir Menzies also denied his claims had broken rules.

In a note to the Commons fees office in 2006, he said: "My flat has remained untouched since 1989 and is in need of decoration and upgrading.

"You will observe that in recent years I have very substantially underspent my (Additional Costs Allowance)."

Ms Goldsworthy rejected claims she had crammed claims in before the expenses deadline, saying the timing was coincidental and she funded part herself.


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Well well well, looks like the well is drying up ,

AND THIS IS THE PEOPLE WHO PUT PENSIONERS IN JAIL FOR NON PAYMENT OF COUNCIL TAX ,,MOSTLY BECAUSE THEY CANT AFFORD IT ,, BUT WITH A SIMPLE OK I WILL PAY THE £40 , AND THATS THE END OF IT ,, THE ARROGANCE OF THESE BASTARDS ASTOUNDS ME .

Health minister Phil Hope is to hand back £41,709 in taxpayer-funded MPs expenses. MP Phil Hope is to pay back over £40,000 in expenses The money was claimed for furniture, fittings and other items for his second home.

"The anger of my constituents and the damage done to perceptions of my integrity concerning the money I have received to make my London accommodation habitable has been a massive blow to me that I cannot allow to continue," he said.

His decision came after it was announced that more than a million expenses claims by MPs over the past four years are to be scrutinised independently in a desperate bid to restore public trust in politics.

Mr Hope, the Labour MP for Corby and East Northants, insisted that all his claims were within Commons rules but that he needed to repay the money "to try to restore the trust and relationships I have with my constituents".

Gordon Brown backed the "extreme but necessary" measure last night as senior Labour figures started following in the footsteps of Tory frontbenchers by handing over money that they were seen to have "milked" out of the system.

Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said she is responding to public "outrage and the anger" by paying £13,332 in capital gains tax (CGT).


Rats and sinking ships comes to mind

And I thought only the Indian politicans were deadbeat corrupt.
Silly me:(