Expensive expenses

[dextrous]

http://www.orange.co.uk/news/topsto...om=hp4&link=ticker_pos_1_link_1&article=index

Is it just me, or is Bell missing the point about who isn't playing ball?

 

[Shytalkz]

Yes, there's nothing like a spot of hypocrisy is there?

And they wonder why we proles have nothing but complete contempt for the trough-feeding scumbags.

As the Aussies are wont to say: "I wouldn't p*ss up their a*ses, if their kidney were on fire".

Read the BBC website for the weasely "defending" of that which they have claimed.

 

[MarkBarl]

How are the MPs being different from anyone else. We would all claim the maximum that our expenses systems would allow given the chance. Why should something come out of our pockets when we can get our employers to pay for it. All this shows is that MPs are just as greedy as the rest of us. It is only a problem because in the end we taxpayers are the employers and are fed up with them appearing to take the p*ss. It is the system that lets them claim for daft things without robust enough checks and measures. Who here works for any firm that will let you claim for anything without a receipt? You can bet your life that lower down in local government and junior civil servants that they have to provide a receipt for every last penny.

If there is any hypocrisy you could argue that it is from the general public who expect their public servants to act differently to them and maintain a far higher integrity than they do. Having said that though, I think they should. They are in a place of privilege and must maintain the highest standards of integrity and professionalism as the example. However surly it's the system and expenses policy that needs tightening up.

My 2p worth.

 

[Johnmelad]

http://www.orange.co.uk/news/topstories/21623.htm?linkfrom=hp4&link=ticker_pos_1_link_1&article=index

Is it just me, or is Bell missing the point about who isn't playing ball?

Stuart Bell said,

"It undermines the very basis of our democracy and is against all the rules of fair play"

And of course our snout in the trough MPs know all about fair play when it comes to expenses.

 

[dave.m]

It is only a problem because in the end we taxpayers are the employers and are fed up with them appearing to take the p*ss.

Mark,
Yes, we are the employers of these scroats but it varies from normal life in that the 'employees' tell us (the employers) what to do and then rob us blind. And we can only 'sack' them every five years.

dave

 

[Shytalkz]

There's no appearing to take the p*ss, it's axiomatic that they do.

You can rest assured that, whatever apparent revisions they come up with in response to this latest attack on their gravy train, that hidden in the details will be sufficient clauses to ensure that they are as well off, if not better off, than they were.

That's how they work: they are delusional, seeing themselves as somehow being greater than mere mortals. There is the odd exception within the 650 of them, but honest upright ones who see their position as being one of public service and not for personal gain are very much in the minority.

And you just know that, for all their self-righteous chest-puffing, the Whigs or Tories would be just the same if they were in office.

Corruption is endemic in the Palace of Westminster. Always has been; always will be.

 

[Shytalkz]

What the pigs can snaffle from the trough.

 

[ricicle]

George Orwell - Animal Farm. It's all in there

 

[Shytalkz]

Ain't that the truth.

 

[Shytalkz]

And they wonder why no one has any respect: clicky

 

[Johnmelad]

How are the MPs being different from anyone else. We would all claim the maximum that our expenses systems would allow given the chance.
My 2p worth.

But our expences system does not allow us to claim for second homes while we live with a relative. Neither do they allow us to claim for pornography.

 

[Trazor]

We would all claim the maximum that our expenses systems would allow given the chance.

And you see no conflict of interest, as they made the rules by which they claimed.

Fraud, pure and simple, anyone in the private sector would have been sacked/prosecuted.

 

[Johnmelad]

And more...

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[dextrous]

So now they want to call in the police to investigate the leaked file. I hope they want to call in the police should any misappropriation of expenses be unearthed - I think there's a name for this, something along the lines of FRAUD. Repaying of dodgy expense claims isn't really good enough - in the real world if I performed such an act, I would be formally disciplined and/or sacked.

More to the point, if the information is actually available on a disk already, it seems somewhat cynical to withold publication until the summer recess, which I presume is timed to provide a chance for the dust to settle during their 2 or so month "jolly".

 

[Brigadier]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...-used-to-censor-expenses-claims-200903311675/