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Vulture

It really is a shame that public executions were abolished.

52% of our politicians have been caught on the fiddle. The entire class is corrupt.

Iris Robinson charged us more than £1,000 for a NEW BED. This is beyond satire. As To quote the great Richard Littlejohn: You (really) couldn't make it up.

Where's Colonel Pride when you need him?

More to the point: where's our pride that we put up with this?

Greenslime

This is the threat to our democracy:

Phil Hope, MP - from his website:
Aged 53 (19/4/1955) and married to Allison Hope (53), Director for Employer Responsiveness at Tresham Institute, Corby, Two children, Nicholas who is a political researcher and Anna who is a political organiser.

So here we have an MP with his snout well and truly in the trough - to the extent that he has to repay over £42.5k.

What worries me more is the rest of the story. Partner: some weido ology job in Employer Responsiveness (what the **** is that supposed to be?); Child 1 is a 'political researcher' and Child 2 is a 'political organiser'.

Professional politicians! Kids born into the system, university to do some useless degree (politics, world affairs, etc)then straight into some political support job until the behind of their ears are sufficiently dry to present themselves at some constituency as a prospective parliamentary candidate. Never done a proper job - but ready to tell the rest of us how we should live in the real world because they learnt the 'way' under some lefty-leaning ology professor at uni!

AndyinBrum

Why has no one asked Gordon why he needs to claim for a second home?

Tiberius

Fair point about Iris, Vulture, but come on; there's no way a woman with her voracious appetite is going to settle for a 200 quid divan from Dreamworld, even on 12 months interest free credit.

Silly me watched BBC news and Newsnight last night, hoping to see what they made of the £50k fund.

Pas du tout!

I guess Crick is still poring over Betsygate, hoping to find something he missed first time.

Dirty Euro

I have had enough of this expenses story.
Yaddy yaddy ya some mps took expenses because they were told they could.
I was angry at some of themn
I think the crooked ones whop filled the system should get done. But to say to someone here you can have a maintenance for yours house free of charge then two years later to say on you took maintenance free of charge did you well you deserve to be hanged.
That is just lunacy,
MPs get paid too much. Cut their pay. But do not be surprised that when you offered humans too much money and too much expenses that they took that pay and expenses.
Yawn Yawn Yawn. I have heard it all before.
MPS get paid too much. Enough said. But lets stop going on about it to an extent that real evil men in the BNP take power.

Now cut the pay, lets move on and talk about real issues.
We need to look at serious issues about tax redistribution not over some selfish issues.

david

The Parliamentary bookings report is far more interesting and potentially dynamite!!! The term 'conflict of interest' comes to mind

Fearless Frank

I was half listening to a phone-in on this subject, and it seems that a lot of people just want MPs who don't fiddle their expenses. What they stand for doesn't seem to come into it. I find this rather worrying.
The total in dodgy claims is the smallest drop compared to the tidal wave of national debt they've run up.
Greenslime: Your picture of Mr Hope's family is a delightful cliche, but how much is fact and how much speculation?

Radgie Gadgie

I see that Keith Vaz claimed £400+ for a footstool. Was it for Data Privacy reasons that the employee wasnt named?

Silent Hunter

Radgie; I think it was for him to practise placing a knee on it, in preparation for his 'Knighthood' for "services to Labour Sleaze".

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Vulture: Fair enough Iris Robinson needed a strong bed, but why don't we see expenses for sheets and laundry. Of course, she washes (or doesn't) her dirty linen in public.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

AndyinBrun: Isn't it obvious that a normal woman like Sarah Brown wouldn't want to share the same house as Gordon if she could help it?

Battle 2807

Where is the outcry about Bruin's private slush fund, and his lying to the House of Parliament?
Is this going to be the next "Neather" ie disappear due to lack of interest?

Vettekulla

Surely MPs, at least the guilty ones, should be made to pay for the cost of Legg. Why should the innocent taxpayer foot the bill?

Sacre Bleu

Is there a separate section for Bruin Parliamentary room bookings or does he have his own suite?