Thieving politicians

Thieving politicians

I can't believe there hasn't been a thread on this over the past fortnight.

What a fucking piss take. Worse than any run of the mill benefit cheats.

thought this one was the best - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/19/douglas-hogg-mps-expenses

'Hogg's £2,200 claim for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century Manor House'

not really bothered by this tbh, they are underpaid (argument "so they do it because they want to help the country not for wealth") so they are just milking the expenses. Anyone on here who has had a works trip away and ordered a steak when they could have had pasta is just doing exactly the same in principle. I lot of ppl comment on this are blatant hypocrites.

Its not the same thing in principle at all, this is public money theyre spending... the money from the people they are meant to represent.

you're expecting MP's to be perfect human beings - they not, no-one is. people are greedy. as pike says, anyone who has ever claimed expenses will try and get as much as they can. if they were ALLOWED to claim that stuff -they would have seen no problem is doing so.

there's different levels, with some much more guilty than other - like the ones claiming mortgage payments on a house he'd already sold - thats just plain fraud.

it's the system that allowed them to do so thats at fault and the fact there was no regulation. that, and that all politicians are cnuts.



whats more interesting is when u look at the difference between what claimed. Labour MP's = mock tudor beams, bookcases; Conservative MP's = Moat cleaning - class divide or what?

So if any of you were in their position you wouldnt of claimed for things you could get away with? load of bollocks, of course you would! I certainly would, if the guidlines say you can claim it, then claim it!!

the MP's who have claimed shouldnt be fired, it should be whoever made the rules up in the first place!!!

When my granny was the local councillor she used to pay me to do leaflet drops around her area, no proof was needed and she would get the money back straight away with no trouble at all, my grandad would also get paid hourly + 60p per mile to take me granny to meetings and anything to do with her doing her job!!

u mean the MP that claimed for a moat - he made up that rule?

but those rules have been in place for a while? plus, you have the house of lord - they vote on some stuff. obviously they're going to be resistant to change - thats why there should have been some sort of regulation in place - glad u're now agreeing with me it wasn't the MP's

i totally agree, a small business, 10 - 15 staff, you won't do it as much - but you would a big multnational - and whats the biggest? the goverment! there's 10's of 1000's of civil servants with the biggest budgets u can imagine, all coming from a limitless pot of taxes!

i sound like i'm excusing them - i'm not. i'm just saying other people do it - just they've been caught out.

id rather dreg a moat with my money than give it to some toothless Romanian in tesco vouchers

Disgrace! ... I know I would do the same

I actually saw David Miliband in Cafe Nero in Shields, King Street last Friday. And the plonker women who served him, asked if he wanted a receipt to show Gordon Brown LOL.