£10,000 offered to leak MP's expenses - Page 26

Neil · 23-08-2009, 21:31

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Do you really believe that the many MP's who are in parliament are there on merit or are there for self gain, on top of the money they already have to enhance thier career prospects at the taxpayers expence?

Does it matter why someone does a job as long as they do it well?

Royboy39 · 23-08-2009, 21:45

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Originally Posted by Neil

Does it matter why someone does a job as long as they do it well?

You and I have been subject to job evaluation and checks to see if we are up to the job.
It takes five years to find out if an MP is up to the job.
If I was in a job and didnt do the business for my boss, I would be out on my ear within a week.
A five year contract for posing at £63,000 a year is very nice thank you.

Neil · 23-08-2009, 22:24

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

A five year contract for posing at £63,000 a year is very nice thank you.

But I don't think £63k for running the Country and making the important decisions they have to make is enough. It is not in line with the private sector.

steeljack · 24-08-2009, 00:16

think one criteria of judging a local MP is to see how much money/jobs he/she has been able to bring into his area . Seems Blackburn is allways a the front of the queue when Govt. money is being passed out , wether this is because the local MP Jack Straw has more political clout than a regular back bencher is anyones guess , but its a sure vote getter

Gayle · 24-08-2009, 07:16

I do think there is something wrong with the country when the people who are charged with looking after our welfare and running the country are paid £63k, but the man who runs Tesco gets £1.5m plus £4m bonus.

I'm sure Sir Terry works very hard and I'm sure he'll justify his salary but let's face it, the person who decides whether he presses the little red button has a bit more responsibility when it all boils down to it.

I suppose the difference, and the argument, is that our MPs are paid out of the public purse, i.e. our hard earned money. But, if I'm honest, I'd prefer to have Sir Terry running the country than the current administration and if he was worth £1.5m then I'd be prepared to pay it. It's the old adage, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Whilst I realise that £63k is not peanuts to the majority of us, we have to pay people what they're worth in the long run.

jaysay · 24-08-2009, 08:52

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Originally Posted by Gayle

I do think there is something wrong with the country when the people who are charged with looking after our welfare and running the country are paid £63k, but the man who runs Tesco gets £1.5m plus £4m bonus.

I'm sure Sir Terry works very hard and I'm sure he'll justify his salary but let's face it, the person who decides whether he presses the little red button has a bit more responsibility when it all boils down to it.

I suppose the difference, and the argument, is that our MPs are paid out of the public purse, i.e. our hard earned money. But, if I'm honest, I'd prefer to have Sir Terry running the country than the current administration and if he was worth £1.5m then I'd be prepared to pay it. It's the old adage, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Whilst I realise that £63k is not peanuts to the majority of us, we have to pay people what they're worth in the long run.

I kind of agree in a way Gayle, the thing that always amuses me is when the quote the average wage in the country and I aways seem to say not in bloody Lancashire it isn't

cashman · 24-08-2009, 09:16

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Originally Posted by Gayle

I suppose the difference, and the argument, is that our MPs are paid out of the public purse, i.e. our hard earned money. But, if I'm honest, I'd prefer to have Sir Terry running the country than the current administration and if he was worth £1.5m then I'd be prepared to pay it. It's the old adage, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Whilst I realise that £63k is not peanuts to the majority of us, we have to pay people what they're worth in the long run.

by the same principal top footballers are paid 100k plus a week, sorry that don't sit too well with me.

Wynonie Harris · 08-01-2010, 14:15

Let's face it, we all knew they wouldn't be able to take their snouts out of the trough.

The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Daily Express: MPS CAN CARRY ON FIDDLING EXPENSES

No wonder politicians of all stripes are regarded with so much contempt these days.

cashman · 08-01-2010, 14:42

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Let's face it, we all knew they wouldn't be able to take their snouts out of the trough.

The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Daily Express: MPS CAN CARRY ON FIDDLING EXPENSES

No wonder politicians of all stripes are regarded with so much contempt these days.

anyone suprised at this news is even dafter n i thought.

garinda · 14-06-2010, 00:09

'For 13 years all five ministers at the Department of Health were given £8 of fruit a day.'

'They filled up their office fruit bowls at a cost to the taxpayer of more than £100,000.'

Labour’s fruit freebies cost taxpayer £100,000 - Times Online

No wonder they regularly produced so much....

Ken Moss · 14-06-2010, 08:26

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Originally Posted by garinda

'For 13 years all five ministers at the Department of Health were given £8 of fruit a day.'

'They filled up their office fruit bowls at a cost to the taxpayer of more than £100,000.'

Labour’s fruit freebies cost taxpayer £100,000 - Times Online

No wonder they regularly produced so much....

I would like to think that there really is going to be a new broom sweeping away needless excesses like this but I know from experience that many 'cuts' and 'savings' are actually just fiddling the figures.

Prove me wrong, Cameron, please please prove me wrong.

jaysay · 14-06-2010, 09:08

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I would like to think that there really is going to be a new broom sweeping away needless excesses like this but I know from experience that many 'cuts' and 'savings' are actually just fiddling the figures.

Prove me wrong, Cameron, please please prove me wrong.

Come come Ken as a Labour flag waver surely that should be prove me right

Ken Moss · 14-06-2010, 09:12

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Come come Ken as a Labour flag waver surely that should be prove me right

Sod it, if it's for the good of the country you can prove me wrong on this one.

garinda · 14-06-2010, 09:31

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Come come Ken as a Labour flag waver surely that should be prove me right

Mind, London is expensive.

As your chum, Peter Britcliffe pointed out, when he said that he couldn't eat in London for a tenner, and used that as an excuse to ignore the recommendations of an independent panel, and the Conservatives voted to increase subsistance expenses by a massive percentage increase.

Just as I helpfully gave Cllr. Britcliffe directions to the Stockpot restaurants in London, perhaps I should have wrote to the various Health Ministers, with directions to Berwick Street market, just a short walk from Whitehall, were they could have bought their five a day for about a quid.

Council makes a meal of rises - Accrington Observer

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...and-45105.html

'Labour Councillors Bernard Dawson, Clare Pritchard, Malcolm Pritchard, Munsif Dad, and Colette McCormack, were so incensed by the decision to vote through the allowances they asked for their no vote to be recorded.'
Expenses rise sparks fury in council chamber - Accrington Observer

My, how things change, in just a few short years.