MP Expenses

Just compare this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8047419.stm

It's a tough call as the rules aren't strict enough to really convict them of anything criminal.

Edit: I'm trying to view both sides here, rather than jump on a reactionary bandwagon. The rules were a little iffy but the level of abuse that's been exposed is too damning to even consider the idea that MPs were acting in good faith, and as such shouldn't be punished.

I do however love the idea that they were given lenient rules as a way to up their income out of the public eye (and I dare say avoid a whole host of taxes they impose on us mere mortals), and they've been rumbled in the same month as their tax hike for the rich What an ungainly exit to a decade of perhaps the most spineless government ever.

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Originally Posted by Ed

Wow. For once I totally agree with you

Well while there may not be a temperature drop in Hell, Swine flu

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I do object to the party politics in this scandal.We hear true blue tories picking up on Browns buddies helping themselves while lefties are queing up to highlight landed gentry having their country estates financed by us plebs,but the real issue here is how powerful people of all political persuasions always end up mired in corruption because power does corrupt and vested interests will always look after each other until the position becomes untenable.They are all as bad as each other.

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Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

It's a tough call as the rules aren't strict enough to really convict them of anything criminal.

Very true.

However surely this is grounds for a Public Vote of No Confidence in the ENTIRE Government, not individual Parties or MP's, but a move to oust them all.

they are all at it, although dont agree with alot of the bnps ideals with regards racism , there ideas on saving britain by getting out of europe and sorting the country out etc are whats needed i feel but its never going to happen, people will moan and continue to vote for the three main parties so the boys club will prosper.

I really hope the BNP don't get a single seat...

I'm loving Elliot Morleys claim.
He was:
Claiming £800/ month for a mortgage that didn't exist
Renting out his second home to another MP - who was paying £1000 a month to Morley (which he claimed from the taxpayer too!)

So stealing £800 a month, and two MPs claiming on the same property
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...-expenses.html

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Originally Posted by Ed

Wow. For once I totally agree with you Brown's 'apology' for 'mistakes' - what mistakes?? That they didn't put their snouts in the trough even deeper?

Apology : to my mind that means saying sorry , a word that Brown is congenitally incapable of uttering.
What mistakes?? : being caught, and ONLY being caught.

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[quote=gettin2dizzy;1904368]It's a tough call as the rules aren't strict enough to really convict them of anything criminal.

Since the MPs made those Rules ( just as so many of the guilty Bank Bosses voted themselves such obscene bonuses & pensions ) there appears to be one almighty ' conspiracy to defraud '

anything criminal. The rule of Law surely supercedes any cosy ' House Rules '
Doesn't it ?