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| me |
How greedy is your MP?find out herehttp://msn.shoothill.com/ suprisingly mick martin s one of the lowest |
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| Doorstop |
Great post Me ... very interesting indeed.
What on earth does Mohammed Sarwar (and any other Glasgow MP for that matter) need a second home allowance for? Money grabbing bastard footpads. 
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| Becky |
My mp, Sion Simon manages to spend £158k!!!
My mind is boggled. Peace. |
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| james73 |
Aye, he's my MP tae. £25k on travel and £174,882 total expenses. 
James H |
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| Stuball |
Why should they get to travel 1st class all the time? | ||
| John |
Where`s Oliver Cromwell when we need him
"you have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, i say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go!.” Addressing the rump parliament. April 1653 |
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| Lone Groover |
That Scary bears a good grudge eh ?
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| iiisecondcreep |
Constituency: Falkirk
MP: Joyce, Eric Party: LAB Expenses Second Home: £22,466 London Supplement: £0 Office: £21,392 Staffing: £87,907 Stationery: £1,003 IT Provision: £1,545 Staff Cover: £0 Communication: £8,631 Travel: £40,637 Total Expenses: £187,334 
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| rotten milk |
in the upcoming elections for MEPs - just say no!
by all accounts (unaudited, of course) they're really takin' the pss. the EUs accounts have been raked into several times, but the official, financial accounts for the EU have not been signed off for the last 14 yrs there's the recent stories that if you play it right, you could clear £1m in your 5 yr stint 'serving' in europe, according to the press - i can quite believe it the fact that the major fire in the EU headquarters was caused by a british MEP burning their receipts(some of which do not even have to have existed in the first place) in a panic, are unconfirmed at the moment...... |
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| cybers |
Constituency: Livingston
MP: Devine, Jim Party: LAB Expenses Second Home: £22,898 London Supplement: £0 Office: £21,274 Staffing: £89,532 Stationery: £1,610 IT Provision: £1,033 Staff Cover: £0 Communication: £10,028 Travel: £19,096 Total Expenses: £169,133 Robin Bastard... Can't even get this twat to answer a call yet he filed 89,000 in staffing and 10,000 for communication... But as a point of intrest i spent more than the thick fooker on I.T Last year |
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| brickwall |
^ he's oot! | ||
| AlanM |
Had a look at www.parliament.uk and found that for 2004 my MP, John Robertson, has claimed £250 most months and listed it as "Cash in Hand", comes in at £1750
looks like it was questioned but paid in October and knocked back as not allowed in November - I'll bet he hasn't paid it back either He's also claimed £300 a month for food, and it shows, looks like he hasn't missed many meals |
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| sputnik |
mine claimed two hunner quid for a pen and nearly four hunner for a camera.he claimed the camera was to take photos for to keep his constituents up to date on his website,the pen he says was a really good fountain pen.he got a letter stating that he had maxed out his office expenses for the year.bet the pen is back in the shop and he is using one oot the bookies noo.
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| fastnet |
Mines is claiming his mortgage, his cooncil tax, his tv license and his food amongst other things.....so what exactly does he spend his money on ???? | ||
| brickwall |
Probably spent it on incidentals, like porn and wine and stuff. | ||
| cybers |
Looks like mine will need to be spending his own dosh on a lawyer...
Devine retribution.... Seen the Bassa the day the Irony when i shouted stop thief was lost on him. |
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| james73 |
MPs expenses revealed but truth isn't there in . . . black and white (Evening Times)
THE full extent of Westminster's culture of secrecy was yesterday laid bare as four years of MPs' expenses were finally published - but heavily censored in an ocean of black ink. Scotland's 59 MPs have claimed a total of £25,454,624 in allowances since 2005, with 48 of them billing the taxpayer for more than £400,000 each. Critics pointed out that the severely-edited disclosure of the expense claims showed how the worst abuses of taxpayers' money would never have come to light without the full version having been leaked and published. Last night it emerged that Labour's Jim Devine, the MP for Livingston who was deselected by the party leadership on Tuesday following queries over his claims for rewiring and shelving, faced more allegations that he billed the taxpayer twice in three months for wood flooring at his London flat. The backbencher, who is said to have discovered claims made falsely in his name, was unavailable for comment. The publication of the documents on the UK Parliament website was the result of a four-year Freedom of Information battle. The redaction of addresses and the exclusion of correspondence regarding disputed or rejected claims meant that the controversy over Ms Blears' claims, and those relating to MPs "flipping" second homes, as in the case of Alistair Darling, would never have come to light. Nor would the public have known about the "phantom mortgages" of Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, the dry rot treatment at Margaret Moran's third home, the dredging of Douglas Hogg's moat or Sir Peter Viggers' duck house. In each of these cases, the MP concerned has either been deselected or is now not seeking re-election. In other strange expenses, Christopher Fraser claimed more than £1800 for cherry laurel and red cedar trees, Fabian Hamilton £135 for an iPod Nano and Liberal Democrat Lembit Opik £20 for a wig for a charity event. Despite the secrecy, some new details did emerge, such as how George Osborne claimed £47 for two DVDs of his speech on "Value for Taxpayers' Money". Last night, it was confirmed that MPs have repaid nearly £500,000 following the public outrage. The amount includes just over £800 from Gordon Brown, mostly regarding a cleaning bill, and £4200 from Douglas Alexander, the International Development Secretary, over the rental of a building. Yet despite all the talk of transparency from the Commons authorities, they confirmed MPs' expenses for 2008/09 would be published in the "same format" - ie, with the same censorship. The Westminster Establishment spent more than £140,000 on the abortive effort to avoid revealing the expenses details before being defeated in the High Court in May last year. The process of scanning and editing all the receipts from 2004 to 2008 has cost a further £2m and taken 13 months. As part of a desperate rearguard action against publication, the Commons passed a measure exempting MPs' addresses and other "security-sensitive" information from publication. James H |
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| cybers |
Whole place is up in arms just now...
Jim devine claims to have the backing of his constituiency but that was not the impression everyone was giving off at his clinic today. Mr devine could not be bothered to appear in person and sent along a representative. No doubt too busy with his interview at McDonalds. |
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| johnmcn |
Constituency: Renfrewshire East
MP: Murphy, Rt Hon Jim Party: LAB Expenses Second Home: £22,801 London Supplement: £0 Office: £18,962 Staffing: £91,886 Stationery: £560 IT Provision: £1,435 Staff Cover: £0 Communication: £11,594 Travel: £13,721 Total Expenses: £162,542 Our illustrious Scottish secretary...grade AAA prick imho.. Another good site is http://www.theyworkforyou.com where you can check past expenses and voting records,seems mines is all for invading sovereign countries,giving us ID cards and replacing trident...If spending over 11.5k on computer equipment since he got in isn't enough taxpayers money,seems he wants to bankrupt us... anywhere we can check Alex's expenses 
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| Doog Doog |
Ian Davidson
Claimed 170K Performed below average in all but 2 of the duties expected of him... No wonder I didn't vote for him!
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| cybers |
All it will show is a rather large hospitality bill for those he has been kind enough to share a visit to his office. Mr Glass is owed more than one shandy mefinks. 
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