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Post by carolann on Jun 20, 2009 11:07:21 GMT
I am absolutely sick and tired of hearing about MP's making mistakes about their expenses how cam anyone make a mistake to the amount that some of them have claimed for? Its about time they where made an example, of if was just Joe public he would have been done for fraud so why dont the Police do them as well? Its a case of one rule for them and another for the rest of us and its not fair, all of them should be done for fraud no if's or but's.
I didnt go out and vote in the last election as I have lost all faith in any of them, as anyone else?
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Post by Barbara on Jun 20, 2009 11:21:19 GMT
They are as bent as a nine bob note Carolann, if we forgot to pay for something it wouldn't keep us out of court, so same should go for them.
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Post by Jasmine on Jun 20, 2009 13:10:49 GMT
I agree - if we stole from work then we would be prosecuted and how you can claim money by accident for a mortgage you've finished paying is an insult to peoples' intelligence. The Telegraph has done an article on the funniest claims that have been made (if any of this can be classed as funny) but then they have been obssessed with this saga since it first came out - you'd think there was no other news in the world.
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Post by snowowl on Jun 21, 2009 16:58:05 GMT
Well i think the one that takes the biscuit is the person that put a £5 donation in the church collection box and then claimed it back on exspenses. Please  As if £5 was worth claiming for the tight crooked B......  |
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Post by carolann on Jun 21, 2009 19:51:22 GMT
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Post by Jasmine on Jun 21, 2009 20:14:43 GMT
There's a few MP couples who seem to have been doing that haven't there - not the dry rot thing but claiming for the same mortgage.
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Post by prodigal gardener on Jun 22, 2009 18:17:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 20:54:28 GMT
Whilst we might not like it, there are some who have actually done nowt wrong except make claims within the rules. In the main, it's the rules themselves that are too lax and need changing.
However, there have been some instances (like the fictitious mortgages and such like) that are, in my opinion, nothing more than theft from the public purse and the offenders should be prosecuted.
The thing that pisses me off is that I work for the Government as a civil servant and if I made one false claim for an expense, no matter how small, I would be out on my arse immediately. No ifs, no buts. Straight out the door. We've even been told that we would face disciplinary proceedings if we filled up the office car with fuel at Tesco and used our own clubcard to get the points ! That's how petty the department is, and yet there are MP's who have claimed thousands incorrectly and all they do is say sorry and that they'll pay it back and there doesn't seem to be any more comeback than that. It's a bloody joke.
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