Latest snout in the trough

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  26 July 2015     10:16284808
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  Will it ever end? Austerity for the rest of us.
  
  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3174676/Now-John-Bercow-bills-taxpayers-1-000-booze-Speaker-claimed-cost-wine-brand-whisky-expenses.html
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 10,540
  26 July 2015     10:30284809
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  'Charging hundreds for taxi rides is bad enough but charging for wine and whisky is absurd,' said one.
  'We cannot claim for booze and the same should apply to him. He earns a huge salary and gets free accommodation - what more does he want?'
  
  Says it all really.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,875
  26 July 2015     12:06284812
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  One word sums up far too many MP's attitude to their privileges and grabbing whatever they think they can get away with............GREED.
  
  I would have preferred the MPs received an even higher pay increase after their last pay review and lost the right to expenses and subsidised bars etc.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  26 July 2015     18:56284827
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  Not only MP's but the BBC has more than it's fair share of lotus eaters, the joke is that in the vast majority of journeys are quicker by tube.
  
  
  http://www.express.co.uk/
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  27 July 2015     06:14284839
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  you know they will not mix with the great unwashed howard.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  29 July 2015     12:13284904
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  The gravy train rolls on and I suspect there is more like this going on in the Lords.
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11769736/Peer-claims-300-a-day-in-expenses-to-walk-200-yards-to-work-at-House-of-Lords.html
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  18 September 2015     14:15286231
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  If what Straw and Rifkind got up to is within the rules, then the rules need to be changed.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34279476
• Guest 671

  • Registered: 4 May 2008
  • Posts: 2,095
  19 September 2015     12:59286249
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  David Cameron "It's quite wrong that there are people in our society who will behave like this.
  But we will not shrug our shoulders and let them get away with it any longer.
  We will take the necessary measures to stop fraud happening in the first place; root out and take tough action against those found committing fraud; and make sure the stolen money is paid back."
  
  No, he wasn't referring to MP's
  "My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  16 January 2016     10:18289559
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  The penny never drops with some, snoughts still firmly in the trough.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/geoffrey-cox-tory-mp-has-expenses-claim-for-49p-pint-of-milk-rejected-by-commons-a6813131.html
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  31 March 2016     18:17312458
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  This crook represented us in Brussels for 5 years.
  
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/malling/news/peter-skinner-former-mep-guilty-fraud-93542/
• Guest 943

  • Registered: 15 May 2013
  • Posts: 449
  1 April 2016     07:43312474
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  Skinner was replaced by Annalise Dodds in 2014.Skinner Skinned us for a total of 15 years. Howard, you know of Ms Dodds?
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  1 April 2016     08:13312476
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  This happens in all party,s not fair to pick anyone of them out.
• Guest 943

  • Registered: 15 May 2013
  • Posts: 449
  1 April 2016     08:57312477
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  Why not Vic? Its about Taxpayer's money, they swindled.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  1 April 2016     09:03312478
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  Never heard of the man until this came out, couldn't have been very active politically. Ms Dodds on the other hand we know of as she canvassed for Clair Hawkins in the last General Election.
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  1 April 2016     09:24312479
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  I am not in any party and the only vote I will be doing is the yes vote for coming out,but as I said all the party,s have members that are trying it on so go get that person but not the party.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  14 April 2016     19:48312877
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  Yet another one by the look of it.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36046675
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  11 May 2016     07:59313543
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  If not for themselves then family members.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36260573