Jacqui Smith expense claim.

[MK Shrimper]

Just heard on the news, MP's "earnt" £92M of taxpayers money last year.

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

Just heard on the news, MP's "earnt" £92M of taxpayers money last year.

If that makes you mad then don't look too closely into the workings and "transparency" of the European parliament when it comes to expenses.

It'd only be frittered away on schools and hospitals if us lefties had our way, anyway.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Just been reading through the expenditure list for 2007 - 2008 and it's quite disgusting reading. All our local MP's all the way up to Thurrock claim more for living away from home than Dennis Skinner claims for representing Bolsover in Derbyshire. If our local trough diggers got taxi's back and forth everyday it would still work out cheaper.

Oh and can someone kindly explain to me why Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have claimed £21,131 and £21,000 respectively for 'Cost for staying away from home' when neither of them have never spoken in the House of Commons or even occupied their office space.

By what I can see, no London MP's have claimed for homes in London but Tony McNulty and our Home Secretary have took the pish paying off mum & dad and little sisters mortgage. And the sleaze keeps rolling on.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

I don't blame him at all. If I was married to Jacqui Smith I'd be watching porn and knocking one off instead too. He must feel like the mafia are after him, waking up to find a horse's head next to him in bed every morning.

 

[Mad Cyril]

You have to ask yourself if a woman who didn't notice her husband blatantly ordering blue on their Sky/Virgin account should be responsible for the police , immigration and keeping us safe from terrorism?

Let's not forget there was no sophistication involved. If it was password protected media files on a USB stick or untitled DVDs that he had borrowed from a mate down the pub and hidden in the garage you could almost understand how he got away with it.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Just been reading through the expenditure list for 2007 - 2008 and it's quite disgusting reading. All our local MP's all the way up to Thurrock claim more for living away from home than Dennis Skinner claims for representing Bolsover in Derbyshire. If our local trough diggers got taxi's back and forth everyday it would still work out cheaper.

Oh and can someone kindly explain to me why Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have claimed £21,131 and £21,000 respectively for 'Cost for staying away from home' when neither of them have never spoken in the House of Commons or even occupied their office space.

By what I can see, no London MP's have claimed for homes in London but Tony McNulty and our Home Secretary have took the pish paying off mum & dad and little sisters mortgage. And the sleaze keeps rolling on.

Safe houses when on the run?

 

[Uncle Leo]

I'm disgusted. I mean, come on. Oceans 13? Twice?

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

This second home idea is a bit of a joke. Surely it'd be easier to have a street of flats, each of which is lent to every serving MP as a second home. Should they lose their seat, they move out. It's a second home, not a perk, and at a time when many are finding it hard to save for even a deposit for a house it's a bit rich MPs getting houses on expenses!