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Yep, it's all over the news about MPs expenses and the ugly fallout it is causing. I'm sure none of you need an introduction to the situation. But what should be done?
What would happen to US LOT if we had our jobs / wages / salaries, then piled on thousands of pounds of claims for toilet seats, luxury plumbing gadgets, clothing, exclsuive furniture and digital equipment, porno channels, etc? Would we be:
1. Told it's all okay and is within the rules?
2. Fired from our jobs?
3. Reported to the police for fraud?
Surely we should issue ASBOs to these penny-pinching b******s who dip into the public purse like it's their own private pot of gold. As a small business owner, I work very hard and always struggle to balance cash flow in order to pay my tax bills, as I am sure many other small business owners do. We're in the dark guts of a recession, all struggling and feeling the pinch, watching the UK slide into a deep pit of debt and despair that our children will grow up to pay-off, finding all our daily bills climbing the walls while our income slides down the toilet, and yet we still pay our taxes and watch as it is used to fund the luxurious lifestyles of our greedy political masters.
I am SO glad this has all come to light and I would love to see heads roll, in particular Gordon Brown's who paid six grand to his brother for cleaning a flat! Was that fair / legal? Did he obtain competitive quotes? Is this "beyond reproach" as the rules state every claim must be?
I am SOOOOO angry at these expenses I could spit. As someone who is feeling the squeeze of recession, and someone who works hard to ensure my tax bills always get paid, I feel that this is nothing short of theft and betrayal on a grand scale. I accept that SOME expenses are essential, but anyone who says they haven't been joyriding the system for personal profit is either a liar or just plain deluded.
Sack them. Investigate EVERY PENNY. Get the police involved. Considering the horrid, harsh treatment WE get if our tax bills are late or even a few pence short, WE should be granted the exact same level of justice when they abuse that money which they so aggressively hound from us for the public purse.
B******ds !!!!!
(apologies to PaulB for the tone of this posting but I really am FURIOUS about this story simply because of the hardships that tax bills have caused me in the past four years)
