£10,000 offered to leak MP's expenses

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Blah, blah, blah.

As Bernadette pointed out, two totally different issues.

This whole shambles isn't really about actual amounts of money, it's about principles, or lack of them, and the gross hypocrisy of humbly apologising only after the facts have been made public.

You've got that spot on Rindi, the amount of money isn't the issue, its the principle that counts, doesn't matter if its a plasma TV or or cleaning your moat out or claiming £100,000 or £5 for a charity donation its wrong plain and simple

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by jaysay

You've got that spot on Rindi, the amount of money isn't the issue, its the principle that counts, doesn't matter if its a plasma TV or or cleaning your moat out or claiming £100,000 or £5 for a charity donation its wrong plain and simple

To me there is a difference when a millionaire expects the public to pay for the upkeep of his Castle!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

To me there is a difference when a millionaire expects the public to pay for the upkeep of his Castle!

So what your saying is its okay for a Labour MP to a buy plasma tv and artwork then Mancie, wrong is wong is wrong whichever slanted view you want to look at it

[derekgas]

I heard on the news today, confirmation that the MEP's expenses far outweigh, and are far less controlled than our local MP's, apparently, it costs around £364,000 to pay for one of our Mp's, including expenses, but costs around £1.8 million to keep an MEP! They get around £80k wages, £250 per day expenses whether they stay on the day or not, and can claim £350k expenses without showing a single receipt. The mind boggles!

[Mancie]

It does make the mind boggle Derek...I can't get my head around why people support UKIP when their MP's are selected and given very well paid jobs...jobs they have no intention of doing..it's like paying a bloke £80k to sit at home moaning about the EU!..(and people do that for nowt on here)

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Mancie

It does make the mind boggle Derek...I can't get my head around why people support UKIP when their MP's are selected and given very well paid jobs...jobs they have no intention of doing..it's like paying a bloke £80k to sit at home moaning about the EU!..(and people do that for nowt on here)

I can see the irony in the UKIP wanting MEP's but how else can they be heard about getting us out of Europe?

[shakermaker]

How it makes of your face a stonethat aches to weep, of your heart a fist,
clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue
an iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right hand
a gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugh
a dry leaf blowing in the wind, of your desert island discs
hiss hiss hiss, makes of the words on your lips dice
that can throw no six. How it takes the breath
away, the pi ss, makes of your kiss a dropped pound coin,
makes of your promises latin, gibberish, feedback, static,
of your hair a wig, of your gait a plankwalk. How it says this –
politics – to your education education education; shouts this –
Politics! – to your health and wealth; how it roars, to your
conscience moral compass truth, POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS.


Carol Ann Duffy (2009)

[cashman]

hope she aint a mate of yours shaker, that would send a glass eye to sleep.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

hope she aint a mate of yours shaker, that would send a glass eye to sleep.

Do you mind cashy if I'm not mistaken she is the new poet laureate, not as I'm into poetry myself

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Do you mind cashy if I'm not mistaken she is the new poet laureate, not as I'm into poetry myself

Hopefully her work might improve when she's received the first of her annual barrels of sherry from the Queen, in lieu of a wage for being Poet Laureate.

Judging that effort, she's only earned a very small glass of cooking sherry so far.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Hopefully her work might improve when she's received the first of her annual barrels of sherry from the Queen, in lieu of a wage for being Poet Laureate.

Judging that effort, she's only earned a very small glass of cooking sherry so far.

Or on the other hand could have drunk the lot all in one go Rindi

[Wynonie Harris]

And the snout dipping continues!

The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Perspicacious: MPs relax after expenses scandal … with South Pacific trip funded by taxpayer

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

And the snout dipping continues!

The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Perspicacious: MPs relax after expenses scandal … with South Pacific trip funded by taxpayer

Did you ever think it wouldn't Wynonie

[MargaretR]

Capitalism is dying because of greed.
The alternatives are communism and fascism.
Not much choice there - anyone for anarchy?

[Bernard Dawson]

What with Margaret setting up an Anarchist Party, and Gayle getting a new dog. Exciting times in Ossy at the moment.