Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They are still at it
George Osborne is getting the taxpayer to foot the bill when he fills up his car.The millionaire Chancellor claimed £140 in petrol expenses for driving in his constituency as motorists struggle with soaring fuel prices after his VAT rise.
Expenses figures yesterday showed that MPs claimed £3.2million in two months.
Mr Osborne asked to be reimbursed for £32.80 in one bill - 40p per mile - for an 82-mile journey from "Macclesfield to Wilmslow".It was revealedl Osborne did not know how much cash the Exchequer raked in from the duty and VAT levied on fuel.
Bournemouth East Tory MP Tobias Ellwood had a £59 bill to fix his bike rejected. Tory minister Francis Maude claimed for a £3.95 pay-per-view Sherlock Holmes film.
It's nice to know that MP's are suffering just as much as we are!
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Keith Sansum1
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#2
MAREK
Thanks for that information
all pull together they say
sadly a lot of it is legal fraud
it, if nowt else is morally wrong
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#3
Yes this was featured a bit on the radio this morning. Sadly it has become all tooo exhausting listening to it. In a time when guys who over milked the system are languishing in jail right now Im sure the current MPs are very careful about being legal.
But yes it is disappointing to see Francis Maude, an MP and Government Minister, whose father was also an MP of course, claiming for such a measly thing as a Sherlock Holmes movie. It might be legal but its very sad.
Im afraid to say that these long career politicians in safe seats have no inclination what the reality is like for ordinary folk. They are very well paid, even better at ministerial level, yet still whinge like Alan Duncan, when the microphones are supposedly off, about how badly they are being treated.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#4
yes they have a realy good life, cushioned from reality
its morally wrong, but worse it does little to encourage voter participation
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
Two Tory health ministers are being chauffeured around at a cost of £77,000 a year - despite the Government's vow to cut the use of limos.Simon Burns has been driven to his Chelmsford constituency home 154 times in the last year, setting taxpayers back £41,384. And Anne Milton has been ferried to her Guildford constituency 134 times, with a £36,334 bill.
After the election, ministers vowed to use public transport more to slash the £10million-a-year cost of the Government's car fleet. But the pair got around the rules by saying they work on classified papers while travelling. Labour transport spokesman Maria Eagle said: "Talk of getting ministers out of their limos and on to public transport was all hot air."
Right everybody after me "We are all in this together"
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
Who ever is abusing the system is wrong, but sadly, it is still the system itself that is wrong to allow this.
In many instances - not all of course, there seems to be no conscience once people become MPs; they are a race apart from "normal" people, whatever normal people are.
If they are not spending anything they earn (?) as MPs but claim everything on expenses, they must be able to save a very large proportion of their salaries.
I'm all for good salaries for good people and ones that prove they are worhy of that salary, but some of the silly things they claim for, is petty beyond belief.
Roger
Jan Higgins
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#7
My civil servant son can not claim for his travelling from home to the office even though he also does work on the train and at home but MPs can or they get a chauffeur driven car. Surely nothing from the health department is that sensitive to be classed as to be classified, the work should be encrypted anyway.
Once elected they are still on a very good gravy train, things have been tightened but still not enough.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#8
roger
we appear to be at one on this
it's the system that needs changing, but we need to do so if we want to get voters back.
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