MP's expenses revealed

[prioryx]

round up a bit Prescott gets 11 quid a day for food yet the army get 1.80 a day to feed its staff

 

And the troops have to pay for their food

[Heyesey]

round up a bit Prescott gets 11 quid a day for food yet the army get 1.80 a day to feed its staff

 

There are very few occasions where Lance-Corporal Jones is required to provide luxury meals to bigwig overseas visitors.

[shoeshine]

The MP's have "a cunning plan" to disguise their expenses for their second homes....

 

Mail Online today

MPs are expected to provoke a fresh outcry over expenses by scrapping the need to provide receipts for their £24,000 annual housing allowances.

 

In a controversial move, they are to be offered the chance to switch to a ‘block grant’ or a new daily allowance system of up to £175 a day to cover the cost of maintaining a second home in London.

 

Crucially, both options would avoid MPs having to present receipts. Many are furious that hundreds of thousands of receipts for individual expenses’ claims are being made public in a triumph for freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke.

 

Now being drawn up by a powerful internal Commons committee, they would also not require MPs to ‘sign in’ each day, unlike a similar system in the House of Lords.

 

MPs will vote on the options in July. A source confirmed that the detailed receipts now causing acute embarrassment would be done away with.

 

And they wonder why they have a reputation within the Electorate as "being lower than a snake's belly"!

[Miss_60]

I think these thieving bar stewards should be leased a house, but after they stop being MP's the house should go back to being owned by the state. Its disgraceful that these MP's should have their "2nd homes" paid for by the tax payer. I think they should not be allowed such massive amounts of money to spend on bills, refurbishments etc etc.

 

I can imagine MP's accountants saying "Oh, you haven't used all your allowance up for refurbishing your house in London" and the MP's saying "Oh, ok, I'll purchase some new carpets then"

 

Its a fooking joke!!!