Jail the lot of em!

[Blu DL]

don't put 'em in jail!! its a breeding ground for politicians

[john-flood]

sack em ! greed gits its there second job for most of them anyway, one of them claim a allowed £200,000 a years for five years thats a million quid WOW, no wonder the countrys going down the pan all the money we pay in taxes goes to the mp's to refurb there second houses or clean there moats out grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

sir alan sugar for pm!!!!!!
and jeremy clarkson for transport minister

fraud is fraud sack em

cheers john

[Big Kahuna]

just looked at my local MPs expenses. Nice house with a £1408 mortgage per month. Also takes £240 a month to clean it .

I don't mind paying genuine expenses, the rules may not be morally acceptable but if the claims are within the current rules then fair enough. The rules need changing going forward.

The ones that have claimed outside the rules - are guilty of fraud - should be treated as such.

[welshand1]

Just had a quick look at my MPs expenses (what could be read of them that is) and . . . . . . . .
£200 to £340 per month on food, HHHMMM must be eating at Claridges every day, I don't spend that in 3 months and I have a familly at home.
A grand a month on rent, £40 odd a month on electric
£153 a month on council tax (second home) I can't afford a second home an I am pretty sure the taxpayer on't pay for one for me
In 1 (one) month alone 30x"parking tax" ?? @ £9 a go.

Please Sir may I claim some of MY expenses for doing my job eg travelling to/from work (note how this seems to be in the blacked out section), cost of feeding/clothing/housing my familly, any "parking taxes" that I may incur, my council tax and MY direct debits (of which in December 2007 ALONE there was 3x£1103 in direct debits - what for?)
Perhaps they should do as the rest of us have to and if they choose that proffesion (and I use the term loosely) then they should ONLY be allowed to claim the going rate for tax coding (ie job related expenses, of which mine are £120/year against tax so is actually worth about £30 a year and my tool upkeep alone is more than triple that).
If they lived to the same rules as all the rest of us, perhaps they would understand better what the average taxpayers lifestyle and costs were, cos sure as hell, mine isn't like theirs APPEARS to be.

[pieater]

YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

[Dyson Diver]

as far as i can see they claim for everything ,,, if thats ok ,,,, why do they need a salary as well.

[welshand1]

as far as i can see they claim for everything ,,, if thats ok ,,,, why do they need a salary as well.

You missed out the gold plated, above index linked, unearned pension pot
Makes you want to don't it?

[Frog]

Fraud - plain & simple. How many sitting reading this who are lucky enough to have a job (still a redundant Frog) knowing if they put in deliberately fraudulant claims and got caught - would the police be involved? Yes. Simple as. My neighbour used to have his own business and said he sacked people for fiddling £50. Mistakes were fine - someone simply added the figures wrongly and they were pointed out and corrected.

This lot should be investigated, and money seized from accounts or items forcibly sold to recover the amount then face the legal consequences of their actions. I get sod all in benefits - my other half is expected to pay for everything as he's working, and we're now accepting food handouts from my dad - a disabled pensioner which sticks in my throat. Yet this lot of slimy, greedy ba$tards tell blatent lies and get thousands. No wonder the UK is going down the fecking pan.

Deep breathing exercies. Begin.

[jamesp]

And whats this about some of them paying the cash back 'voluntarily'? Is that like a bank robber walking back into Barclays weeks after the event and handing back the cash he stole?

Stevie H

Yes.

We`ve just had a guy(ex-employee) on CCTV stealing material from work, realising he was rumbled he brought it back the following day, with a smile on his face.

Police arrested and interviewed him, the claim was "he was only borrowing it, and returned it". Police response: No further action.

This thieving swine goes by the name of Trevor Dempsey and free lances as a PADI instructor FYI.

The police have failed to prosecute anybody after an investigation into any government scandal. Do you think they will suddenly come over competent on this one?

The system is becoming endemicaly corupt and utterly incompetent.
I doubt either the government or the police could run a bath.

[welshand1]

Well it would seem that after our pauperlike MPs have been caught out over expenses and paying back what was not rightfully theirs to take, that they have found another way to line the old threadbare pockets
MPs set for £10,000-a-year pay rise | thelondonpaper.com
In total ignorance of this earlier promise
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/mps-pay-rise/MPs-pay-up-23-296020623.html