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Kenn
18-Jun-09, 19:16
Just been checking my MP's expenses claims, satnav,window cleaning,over £6000 for bathroom improvements NOT a new bathroom, over £500 for food over four days at a hotel (separate bill for the accommodation),claimed for a year's rail pass and then submitted a further £150 for rail travel within the same area and I've barely skimmed the surface!

What have you found out about yours?
Rheghead
18-Jun-09, 19:26
Got a link?:confused
Kenn
18-Jun-09, 19:50
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106044.stm
Rheghead
18-Jun-09, 20:13
Nothing juicy to moan about, mobile phone costs, taxi/hire car, local hall hire costs, newspapers that sort of thing.
webmannie
18-Jun-09, 20:56
Yes nothing worth bothering about. Seems to be fairly honest, even felt sorry for him when they never paid his £18 bar/wine bill when he was staying a night in a hotel, the total would have only been ~£83. I certainly wouldna have grudged him it!!
Cazaa
18-Jun-09, 21:58
Got a link?:confused

Here's the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP:

http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances%2Dby%2Dmp/john%2Dthurso/

I can't understand why they are allowed to claim for food. Is that an expense? Can we claim this back from our taxes?

I also notice that it is the same (£400) each month. Is he on a 'strict' diet and only eats the same things EVERY month?
Oddquine
18-Jun-09, 22:04
I also notice that it is the same (£400) each month. Is he on a 'strict' diet and only eats the same things EVERY month?

Nope.....that's what they are allowed to claim without receipts.
alex
18-Jun-09, 22:05
I discovered his middle name was Archibald. If I was going to black anything out that would probably have been this particular bit.

Parents, hey. Gotta laugh :lol:

It is interesting that as a whole MPs have paid back nearly half a million pounds or about nine grand per member...

Never would have happened in Zambia
theone
18-Jun-09, 22:11
[QUOTE=Cazaa;562905]

I can't understand why they are allowed to claim for food. Is that an expense? Can we claim this back from our taxes?

QUOTE]

It is if he's away from home and has to buy/eat out.

It's the same for any other company, government or not.
Rheghead
18-Jun-09, 23:49
I discovered his middle name was Archibald. If I was going to black anything out that would probably have been this particular bit.

He was named after his grandfather I'd imagine.

He told a fib or two as head of the Air Ministry. One local incident really springs to mind.:roll: Funny that...
The Pepsi Challenge
19-Jun-09, 01:38
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8107922.stm

Another slap in the kisser, another dip into our threadbare pockets. It just got worse...

Friday and Saturday's Telegraph, however, should make for interesting reading...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7840678.stm
Rheghead
19-Jun-09, 01:52
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8107922.stm

Another slap in the kisser, another dip into our threadbare pockets. It just got worse...

Friday and Saturday's Telegraph, however, should make for interesting reading...

Sorry but if your whole world revolves around the verdict of any one's paper's opinion column...[disgust]
The Pepsi Challenge
19-Jun-09, 01:54
Sorry but if your whole world revolves around the verdict of any one's paper's opinion column...[disgust]

No, just one of many to choose from.
Aaldtimer
19-Jun-09, 02:49
If there was one thing that was designed to inflame public opinion even more then it was this bliddy farce with the screeds of blacked out areas of the expences details that the Telegraph had already reported on.
They have no shame.
Their mendacity continues.
Blears survives in her local constituency...are they morons or what?[disgust]