View Full Version : Anyone read about MPs' expenses?
this makes me so angry they get £10,000 for new kitchens £6000 for bathrooms to be fitted, £750 for new tv's....etc etc etc. for 2ND homes!!!!! who pays these expenses?? taxpayers??us?? the people that go out and bust a gut to earn money to pay for basics like food electric and heating!!!! and thats their expenses for 2nd homes. wat is the world coming to!!!!
this makes me so angry they get £10,000 for new kitchens £6000 for bathrooms to be fitted, £750 for new tv's....etc etc etc. for 2ND homes!!!!! who pays these expenses?? taxpayers??us?? the people that go out and bust a gut to earn money to pay for basics like food electric and heating!!!! and thats their expenses for 2nd homes. wat is the world coming to!!!!
I think I'll become an MP when I'm older :D
well i mite rethink my future employment somethings wrong somewhere. wick cana get holes in the road fixed but mps r getting £300 pounds to spend on mirrors and £50 for shredders [mad] ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
well i mite rethink my future employment somethings wrong somewhere. wick cana get holes in the road fixed but mps r getting £300 pounds to spend on mirrors and £50 for shredders [mad] ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'd like to do some political work when I'm older but I'd rather I did it voluntary to improve the lives of other people so I wouldn't be after the pay for bathrooms etc..
ciderally
14-Mar-08, 19:50
what a fantastic gravey train to be on....it really is out of order....
nothing but the best they get most of it from jonh lewis!!!!
Hopefully now it's all out in the open they'll change the rules. I think what bothers me most about all this overspending - and let's face it, it starts at the top with our former Chancellor getting us all further and further into debt - is that we elect these people on the assumption that they are basically honest and responsible. If they had any consciences at all, they would not take advantage of taxpayers in this way. Do none of them ever stop and think - "OK I know I'm allowed to spend as much as I like but it's not my money so I'll spend as little as I can" ? Obviously not.
I'm all for MPs getting all the perks. Like in anything else, if we want the best people then we have to have an attractive pay package to get them into the job as compensation from their own normal backgrounds for what could be a very short 4 year political life. Else from that then run for office yersels if you aren't happy. As for all the details of the expenditures, how does it all compare to all that with what scroungers on the DHSS get, huh?:confused
Historically speaking, it was due to MPs getting paid that enabled people from less privileged backgrounds to take up public office for the persuence of the socialist movement. So don't knock your MPs for claiming stuff, they are entitled to it because it is a part of the legacy that released us from capitalist enslavement.
I'm all for MPs getting all the perks. Like in anything else, if we want the best people then we have to have an attractive pay package to get them into the job as compensation from their own normal backgrounds for what could be a very short 4 year political life. Else from that then run for office yersels if you aren't happy. As for all the details of the expenditures, how does it all compare to all that with what scroungers on the DHSS get, huh?:confused
Rheghead, I hope all that was tongue in cheek. If not you're getting madder by the minute. Presumably we want the best nurses and teachers for ourselves and our children too. I don't see them getting even a decent wage - they can't even afford housing in most parts of the country, let alone garden furniture for their second homes and £300 mirrors.
gettin reasonable expenses paid is fair enough but come on getting 2nd homes all kitted out!!!!!!! getting expenses for a first home is bad enough. think off all that money and where it could go!! just because they are MPs doesnt mean they can get everything handed on a plate they earn plenty money why can they not pay for their own luxuries. because that is what most of it is!!!![mad]
this makes me so angry they get £10,000 for new kitchens £6000 for bathrooms to be fitted, £750 for new tv's....etc etc etc. for 2ND homes!!!!! who pays these expenses?? taxpayers??us?? the people that go out and bust a gut to earn money to pay for basics like food electric and heating!!!! and thats their expenses for 2nd homes. wat is the world coming to!!!!
I totally refute this - I paid for my new kitchen, bathroom and telly out of my own savings....
MP
well u must be one of the few MPs paying out their own pocket!!!!;)
well i reckon i am going to change jobs and become a mp then i could get my house perfect..
go for it remember its 2 houses ul get to do up perfect!!!:lol::lol:
Rheghead, I hope all that was tongue in cheek. If not you're getting madder by the minute. Presumably we want the best nurses and teachers for ourselves and our children too. I don't see them getting even a decent wage - they can't even afford housing in most parts of the country, let alone garden furniture for their second homes and £300 mirrors.
They need the £300 mirrors so that they can see when it's time to remove the orange from their mouth and undo the leather gag!!!.....................
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