MP's Expenses

So while perusing BBC NEWS there is now a link to see how much your MP has spent on expenses for last few years. As this is an issue that has literally rocked parliament to its core I dont really see the Parliamentary standards changing rules ASAP to change a corrupt system. This is what the country wants and needs!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106044.stm

How did your MP do?

IDS- 112'905 certainly below the average still seems steep, but that is the system.

[preiffer]

Mine's at 156k last year.... [:w]

[Neil]

166k [V]

[preiffer]

Surely 30k of that was a payment to offset the fact you're one of their constituents, Neil...? [:w][;)]

[Neil]

quote:Originally posted by preiffer
Surely 30k of that was a payment to offset the fact you're one of their constituents, Neil...? [:w][;)]


[:(!] not even remotely funny!

AND that wasn't even the wonderful John Prescott's expenses, he was another 144k, and the 3rd Hull MP, Alan Johnson was 132k, so in total Hull's 3 Labour MP's claimed 442k between them, f**king outrageous.

[Darren Wheeler]

Yeah, they could have made it a round half million.

My town's two MP's 315,000 between them.[n]

[HighFlyer]

148,829, of which second home allowances totals 19,626. Our MP is David Cameron too [:)]

I can see why so many want to be an MP.

Thanks,
Sarah

Good old Geoff Hoon 137,405.

Our Tessa: 126,405

[RichardMannion]

With those kind of expense claims, I think a glittering career leading a union of choice awaits....