UK Parliment Expenses

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train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

(UK members will know what I am going on about)

http://mpsallowances.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/hocallowances/allowances-by-mp/

if you fancy a read at what they claiming, My MP has been claiming electricity on 5 properties it seems!!

I saw the Moat MP aswell and his expenses lets say were magical

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

I nearly keeled over when I saw half of these bloody things. Hang them all.

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:12 pm

all the jucy stuff has been whitewashed.

not much juicy gossip.

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

Look up Duglas Hogg on one of his vodafone bill it blanks certain sections and on another sheet it shows them, so the "censorship" is poop

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:49 am

The BBC has a facility where I typed in my postcode and got my MP's bills. And why do I pay £400 per month for his food again? Confused

Gerald Kaufman got so carried away with his black pen, he crossed out 'Dear Mr..' at the start of an invoice. They only wanted to release the info like this, left up to them without the Telegraph we would never have known about moats, duck islands and switching homes to avoid Capital Gains Tax. In the name of 'security' of course. Wink

You can see why they fought tooth and nail to keep it from us.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

In Julie Kirkbride's expenses, Mini Dicta Machines Ltd. wrote:

ON SITE Technical Support Call
Test errors on existing speechmike system and Dani's office PC
Amend IP address for Dani's PC
Brief training & recs re use of equipment
Time on site including security clearance 1 hour

What the engineer wanted to wrote:

Got to site. Idiots held me up for ages checking security.
Found user had misconfigured PC.
No fault found in our kit.
Told user to RTFM.
Went home and had a beer.

ETA: I also note she claimed for a "Black Foam Filled Satellite". Call Fox Mulder immediately.

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

@RoyCropper I forgot the BBC site thats quite indepth

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:11 pm

Just had a look at my hometown's MP.

He payed, sorry, the taxpayer paid £100 to have a wireless router and printer set up. Not £100 to purchase the actual router and printer and then have it connected but £100 for someone to plug in a couple of wires and a few clicks of a mouse.

At around 5-10 minutes work that works out at between £600 - £1200 per hour! I'm in the wrong game!

419Eater is my life Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 351

My personal favourate was the chap who claimed to get his moat cleaned, not the actual cleaning of it but the fact he needs it done for peace of mind in order to do his 'job' - gotta keep the unwashed masses at bay heh heh