According to today's Sunday Times article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1226901,00.html) MP's are claiming expenses up to 3 times their salary!

2 be honest i think thats commen practice in most walks of life pal , you give folk an inch and they take a mile .

News must be slow then. Surely The Times can't be the only organisation in the world that didn't know about MPs and their expenses?

A bit rich though, coming from a journalist whose profession is renowned for fiddling expenses. :D

Originally posted by Tony
According to today's Sunday Times article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1226901,00.html) MP's are claiming expenses up to 3 times their salary!

Don't every body do this? :rolleyes: ;)

Originally posted by Tony
...MP's are claiming expenses up to 3 times their salary!

I wondered why there was no money left in the pot to pay nurses & doctors a suitable increase :rolleyes:

I think it's called fraud. The greedy b******s as if they don't get paid enough. See here (http://www.parliament.uk/faq/pay_faq_page.cfm) for all the bits that an MP doesn't tell you he/she gets.

The Winding up allowance made me titter payable after MP's defeat or retirement. Then there's the Resettlement Grant worth upto £57,000, to help them adjust to non-parliamentary life.

Poor things I really don't know how they manage :mad:

Originally posted by Mo
See here (http://www.parliament.uk/faq/pay_faq_page.cfm) for all the bits that an MP doesn't tell you he/she gets.

Isn't that a public web site telling you what an MP gets?
:loopy:

Anybody know the website for the MP's expense claims as on the news yesterday? Have goooogled but can't find it.