Comments on: ‘MPs screwing the taxpayer’ awards 2008 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/ Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cheryl Peers http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-7128 Cheryl Peers Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:05:50 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-7128 I nominate Jack Straw M.P. for most wasteful M.P. having just spent £170,000 of tax payers money on artwork for his office in recessionary times.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('7128','Cheryl Peers'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('7128','Cheryl Peers','I nominate Jack Straw M.P. for most wasteful M.P. having just spent £170,000 of tax payers money on artwork for his office in recessionary times.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I nominate Jack Straw M.P. for most wasteful M.P. having just spent £170,000 of tax payers money on artwork for his office in recessionary times.
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]]> By: Harry McKay http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1778 Harry McKay Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:03:34 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1778 I have just watched the news at 10 and see that the speaker of the house, who is investigating M.P.'s expenses in now under investigation himself as his wife has claimed £4,000 in taxi fares since 2004. Talk about setting a thief to catch a thief. This just shows once again how out so called public servants can't resist getting they're snouts well and truly stuck into the public trough. When are the British public going to wake up and demand some accountability?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1778','Harry McKay'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1778','Harry McKay','I have just watched the news at 10 and see that the speaker of the house, who is investigating M.P.\'s expenses in now under investigation himself as his wife has claimed £4,000 in taxi fares since 2004. Talk about setting a thief to catch a thief. This just shows once again how out so called public servants can\'t resist getting they\'re snouts well and truly stuck into the public trough. When are the British public going to wake up and demand some accountability?'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I have just watched the news at 10 and see that the speaker of the house, who is investigating M.P.’s expenses in now under investigation himself as his wife has claimed £4,000 in taxi fares since 2004. Talk about setting a thief to catch a thief. This just shows once again how out so called public servants can’t resist getting they’re snouts well and truly stuck into the public trough. When are the British public going to wake up and demand some accountability?
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]]> By: Jim Young http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1777 Jim Young Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:10:37 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1777 Is there just one MP in the UK who is honest, accountable and worth their salary.........I think not. Too many crooks in smart suits ripping the taxpayer off. The fact is......there is not one party worth voting for in the UK today, they are all the same animal with different clothing. As for Labour, the worst turnout in 100 years for a general election and they got in by sheer luck; not representative of the people. A government that are control freaks and dangerous social engineers who would be more suited running Stalinist USSR Communist Russia. They have destroyed the UK with their vision of what they think should be a better nation; they are mistaken and hopefully wil have their sorry arses kicked to high heaven come next general election time.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1777','Jim Young'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1777','Jim Young','Is there just one MP in the UK who is honest, accountable and worth their salary.........I think not. Too many crooks in smart suits ripping the taxpayer off.\nThe fact is......there is not one party worth voting for in the UK today, they are all the same animal with different clothing. As for Labour, the worst turnout in 100 years for a general election and they got in by sheer luck; not representative of the people. A government that are control freaks and dangerous social engineers who would be more suited running Stalinist USSR Communist Russia.\nThey have destroyed the UK with their vision of what they think should be a better nation; they are mistaken and hopefully wil have their sorry arses kicked to high heaven come next general election time.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Is there just one MP in the UK who is honest, accountable and worth their salary………I think not. Too many crooks in smart suits ripping the taxpayer off.
The fact is……there is not one party worth voting for in the UK today, they are all the same animal with different clothing. As for Labour, the worst turnout in 100 years for a general election and they got in by sheer luck; not representative of the people. A government that are control freaks and dangerous social engineers who would be more suited running Stalinist USSR Communist Russia.
They have destroyed the UK with their vision of what they think should be a better nation; they are mistaken and hopefully wil have their sorry arses kicked to high heaven come next general election time.
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]]> By: Will Rhodes http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1771 Will Rhodes Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:36:26 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1771

Letters From A Tory // March 20, 2008 at 11:35 am

The problem is that I couldn’t give a ‘Second Homes’ award because over 180 MPs claim the maximum allowance of £22,100!!!

So this is 180 that are giving the British public a shafting. Which one draws the conclusion that Tories are at it, too.

My thoughts are that no MPs should get this amount on an annual basis if at all. Every penny they take out of the public purse should be made accountable.

And I don’t care if they are Labour, libDem or Tory. When will Mr Cameron come out and say that this is Tory policy?

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]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1776 Letters From A Tory Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:49:38 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1776 Mr MacNeil spends £6,000 (20%) more than any other Scottish politician, which I think deserves to be highlighted and a convincing explanation of this would be much appreciated. Quite why highlighting his high spending is "unconservative" is beyond me, and the irony of you spelling 'idiotic' incorrectly did not escape my attention. :)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1776','Letters From A Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1776','Letters From A Tory','Mr MacNeil spends £6,000 (20%) more than any other Scottish politician, which I think deserves to be highlighted and a convincing explanation of this would be much appreciated.\n\nQuite why highlighting his high spending is \"unconservative\" is beyond me, and the irony of you spelling \'idiotic\' incorrectly did not escape my attention. :)'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Mr MacNeil spends £6,000 (20%) more than any other Scottish politician, which I think deserves to be highlighted and a convincing explanation of this would be much appreciated.

Quite why highlighting his high spending is “unconservative” is beyond me, and the irony of you spelling ‘idiotic’ incorrectly did not escape my attention. :)

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]]> By: idle http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1775 idle Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:38:47 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1775 You make a lot of good points but your ignorance of MacNeil's Hebridean constuency and your spiteful reluctance to have him spend at least a day or two a week with his constituents as a valid MP's expense is unconservative and idotic.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1775','idle'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1775','idle','You make a lot of good points but your ignorance of MacNeil\'s Hebridean constuency and your spiteful reluctance to have him spend at least a day or two a week with his constituents as a valid MP\'s expense is unconservative and idotic.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> You make a lot of good points but your ignorance of MacNeil’s Hebridean constuency and your spiteful reluctance to have him spend at least a day or two a week with his constituents as a valid MP’s expense is unconservative and idotic.
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]]> By: Th Essex Boys http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1774 Th Essex Boys Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:20:22 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1774 We heard Dennis Mcshane on a recent 'Daily Politics' say that he'd been in both France and Germany in the past 2 weeks. Was this a holiday in 'term-time'? Alternatively why would an ex-Minister for Europe be jaunting around the continent at the taxpayers expense...even if he IS the MP Labour field when the rest are too timid to defend a cause!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1774','Th Essex Boys'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1774','Th Essex Boys','We heard Dennis Mcshane on a recent \'Daily Politics\' say that he\'d been in both France and Germany in the past 2 weeks. Was this a holiday in \'term-time\'? Alternatively why would an ex-Minister for Europe be jaunting around the continent at the taxpayers expense...even if he IS the MP Labour field when the rest are too timid to defend a cause!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> We heard Dennis Mcshane on a recent ‘Daily Politics’ say that he’d been in both France and Germany in the past 2 weeks. Was this a holiday in ‘term-time’? Alternatively why would an ex-Minister for Europe be jaunting around the continent at the taxpayers expense…even if he IS the MP Labour field when the rest are too timid to defend a cause!
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]]> By: Another Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1773 Another Tory Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:12:09 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1773 £35,000 for postage? How many letters is this (assuming it is promotional bumpf, not gifts)? Is it physically possible for her to send so many letters in the time?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1773','Another Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1773','Another Tory','£35,000 for postage? How many letters is this\n(assuming it is promotional bumpf, not gifts)? Is it physically possible for her to send so many letters in the time?'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> £35,000 for postage? How many letters is this
(assuming it is promotional bumpf, not gifts)? Is it physically possible for her to send so many letters in the time?
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]]> By: Letters From A Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1769 Letters From A Tory Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:57:06 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1769 Ann and Alan Keen BOTH charge the taxpayer around £19,000 a year, and Ed and Yvette BOTH charge the taxpayer about £16,000 a year. Draw your own conclusions....<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1769','Letters From A Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1769','Letters From A Tory','Ann and Alan Keen BOTH charge the taxpayer around £19,000 a year, and Ed and Yvette BOTH charge the taxpayer about £16,000 a year.\n\nDraw your own conclusions....'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Ann and Alan Keen BOTH charge the taxpayer around £19,000 a year, and Ed and Yvette BOTH charge the taxpayer about £16,000 a year.

Draw your own conclusions….

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]]> By: Another Tory http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2008/03/18/mps-screwing-the-taxpayer-awards-2008/#comment-1772 Another Tory Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:41:27 +0000 http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com/?p=452#comment-1772 Regarding housing allowances, which MP couples, living together, both claim the allowance for same residence, eg. do Ann Keen & husband who live within easy commuting distance of Westminster, or Ed & Yvette?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1772','Another Tory'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1772','Another Tory','Regarding housing allowances, which MP couples, living together, both claim the allowance for same residence, eg. do Ann Keen & husband who live within easy commuting distance of Westminster, or Ed & Yvette?'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Regarding housing allowances, which MP couples, living together, both claim the allowance for same residence, eg. do Ann Keen & husband who live within easy commuting distance of Westminster, or Ed & Yvette?
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