Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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TAXPAYERS had to fork out more than £17million to see the back of the last "rotten" Parliament, it was revealed yesterday.
MPs carried on claiming in the wake of the expenses scandal, blowing more than £90million in the run-up to the election.
Shamed Jim Devine and David Chaytor continued to draw the cash even after they were charged with fiddling.
And the costs mounted with 221 departing MPs spending £6.8million "winding up" their offices.
The huge sum is on top of £10.3million in "golden goodbyes" to those quitting.
Labour MP John Mann, who campaigned to end the gravy train, said: "People will just raise their eyes and say, 'Here we go again'."
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Thats a lot of money Marek. There are huge payoffs for failing in Westminster..the only other area I can think of where you get paid for failing is at boardroom level in those large conglomerates. Bankers for example, the guy hs name escapes me for the moment, who brought RBS to the wall, left with massive amounts of cash in his back pocket.
In real life if you fail you get kicked out the door on your aspidistra...
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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All parties should hold there heads in shame on this issue.
And let's not get carried away on blaming the labour govt.
All the parties had mp's claiming both illegal and legal expenses that you and I would disagree with.
It's damaged an aready badly hit political- set set.
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Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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I agree Keith the whole system should have been cleansed from the top down, after all Brown, Cameron and Clegg were found to have made "errors of judgment" yeah right. As for the bankers it was Sir Fred Goodwin, Paul, helped bankrupt RBS and then pocketed millions in pension, shares and bonuses, which presumably we financed. You'll be pleased to note that he is fit and well and managed to keep hold of his yacht, poor soul has suffered.
Sometimes I admire the Chinese they would have simply shot him, bankers worried, population happy.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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What a pity, deary-deary me, what it is to be an MP and more over what a crying-shame it was in the recent past. The Country repeatedly said to be on the up-and-up: a story they all were cajoled and whipped to maintain. The nation awash with easy money and yet not much on the wage-rise front for those in the commons. Add to this the pressure on the lobby-fodder to approve bill after bill: DNA data-base, ID cards, wars of aggression. How could any of this be managed?
Ah, I've got it. Somebody MUST have said. Let us use our imaginations and wallow in the gaping maw of the public purse. "Claim it on expenses dear boy."
Cut to today.
Little has changed. Many of the old-guard are leant on day-in-day-out to sanction the most unpalatable stuff. Fortunately each knows that power is hard to come by and the likely result of the next election far from certain. So many have to grin and bear it. Yet, nobody likes to see a chap down in the mouth; not a chap one will all too soon have to rely upon, anyway. As luck would have it the general ill-wind that sweeps the nation is such that what a chap may lose on the swings he gains on the roundabout. All is well.
Time for the 'leader' and his 'deputy' to swan off on their hols.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Can I make it clear that although I have an Uncle Fred it is not the Sir Fred,this one lives in a Caravan in Spain I believe.!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i accept that john, sir freddy goodwin has a weakness where money is concerned, not like you.
however you have a different weakness altogether, nothing wrong with that though, we all need a hobby.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Howard
i'm sure i don';t follow what you mean.
Please share
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