One honest MP in a pool of greedy, dishonest MP’s – Give that man a round of applause, lets have more like him please.

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Do you think that as some of our mp’s are returning their expense money it should be given back to the taxpayers.
After all whilst we are in a credit crunch and all feeling the pinch it is somewhat taking the mickey to claim for swimming pools,moats and even court summonses for unpaid council tax.Lets have a countrywide poll and see what the real feelings are.
Ray

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come on then danny boy come clean and show us your expense claims – why waait til the Tory graph publishes them – a good MP would put them in the local press – i challenge you mr kawzynski as i pay your wages – show me where your claims go

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this shows the difference between us and them

we are more or less clean, certainly daniel has lead by example on this issue, and david cameron is the only leader not to have big claims, unlike brown and his cleaner and clegg and his mortgage we are the natural party of government and thus we know how to do things like this properly

when we take charge, we will slash MPs perks to help cut taxes on businesses and married couples, we will get rid of waste and cut taxes and get out of the EU, god save the Queen

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It is extraordinary is it not that no less than 92 MP’s of all parties the length & breadth of the UK have today told their local press that they are happy to discuss claims with constituents following allegations of a “systematic abuse”. They all go on to say that they are along with their staff “incredibly careful.” “We spend money carefully and appropriately on behalf of our constituents in providing a good service for them.”?

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I second this motion!

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according to the BBC website in 2007-2008 he claimed nearly £157,000 in allowances, including for a second home,

many MPs claimed far less than he did.

Another example of says one thing and does something else.

On the gravy train with the rest of them, time he was voted out.

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i dont believe him

10 k per annum for digs is not good value for money – even in london you can rent a flat for £500 a month, thats only £6k per annum

He is living in luxury at the tax payers expense

we should put them in 1 bed council house flats that is all they deserve / need

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Solution – Government buys a 300 room hotel in London with taxpayers all MPs 2nd homes are sold to fund this hotel.

Mp’s stay in this hotel when they are in London – It will reduce costs on security as well.

Rooms should be travel lodge style with bedroom, bathroom, and desk and chair.

Problem solved.

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£157k seems an awful lot to me, but Labour must lose Shrewsbury or they will secure another Commons majority. People can safely vote Tory to stop them without giving Cameron his own majority, whereas in Telford a Tory vote is too risky. A win there probably means a Tory Commons majority, so in Telford Labour must be supported to stop them.

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Readers, take a close look at the first line of Serotonins comment at 16. This say’s it all and we are expected to take seriously anything else that is said by this Labour apologist.
Just in case there is anyone else of the same advanced political knowledge as Serotonin, for information Elliot Morly is a long serving member of the LABOUR PARTY and is presently MP for Scunthorpe – though for how much longer depends on the non leadership, prevarication and pussyfooting around by Gordon Brown.
Had he really been a Tory MP as Serotonin seems to think he was, he would have been out on his ear within hours of his claims coming to public knowledge.
No party is coming out “good” at present Serotonin, though if it’s a case of £ for £ which is I know, a ridiculous argument, the Tories are left in the shade by Labour who don’t believe in fiddling expences by half measures, they go the whole hog.
I would ask who should hold their hands up to your last ill judged comment, yourself or Toryboy.

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Come on Danny, you have a web site and are only to keen to tell us all sorts of things you have an opinion on, publish your expenses. Tell us which ‘club’ you stay at and what get in addition to a bed for a night at that club. Also tell us what you claimed for at the flat you used to have – if you were as careful as you say it won’t be to much trouble to demonstrate your ‘value for money’ credentials

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Stuart – Yes, my mistake I did mean Andrew McCay – I was making the point that MP’s from all parties were involved, in contrast to Tory boys deluded “Clean” statement.

I also hardly see how my comments make me a Labour apologist (I’ve never actually voted for Blair or Brown). Perhaps you should actually read my comments? Maybe the reality is that it is you that is an apologist for the Tories?

I do however accept that things look far worse for Labour since my initial comment – then again it is a Tory rag reporting these stories!

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Serotonin

Talk about deluded!

Your obviously in the 22%

It amazes me anyone can talk up the Labour disaster!

Then again, welcome to mediocre Britain

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Stuart,

Whilst I agree that no party is coming out of this well, I think perhaps you’re overlooking Andrew Mackay and his wife, the truly awful Julie Kirkbride. Both have apparently been claiming one each of their two homes as a ‘second’ home.
There’s also Francis Maude, whose ‘second’ home is but a four and a half minute walk from his ‘first’ home…

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Capt Chaos, my wife made exactly the same point to me at lunchtime today so I made the following point to her.
“We paid off our mortgage in 1996, prior to that, I received help with my mortgage payments, do you think we would have gone on claiming for mortgage help after we had paid it off – for 18 months, to a total cost of £16,000″. My wife replied, “of course not”, that sums it up, we are two normal, decent – not rich pensioners, we would not have done it, neither would millions of others, probably the greater majority of the population but this is exactly what Elliot Morley, MP did.
If I had done this in my job, it would have meant instant dismissal with the Police knocking on my door a few hours later.
Why are MPs any different?

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Peter,
Yes, quite agree, the Mackays have done much that is wrong. I can name two Labour Ministers, (husband and wife) that have done equally as wrong, in fact there is another husband and wife team in a situation like the Mackays and Francis Maude combined. I won’t name these as the Star won’t publish anything that is only 1000% proved albeit the Telegraph will.
It is silly to compare parties in this, “all snouts together” disgrace but if you insist, we now have two Labour MPs claiming for non existent mortgages WE CANNOT GET WORSE THAN THAT. That by any standards is, (I won’t say it for fear of censorship) but imagine a benefit claimant lying about their circumstances, arrest, court then payback and in some cases, imprisonment. Remember the ex Mayor, a benefit claimant refereeing a football match and filmed whilst doing so -he got sent down.
Then we have the diabolical Tam Dalyell, the champion of the far left and shining star of the working class, father of the house and always on the high moral mountain – he merely claims £18,000 for bookcases, two months before he retires, enough said I think. Please stop trying to point score – ALL THE PARTIES HAVE BEEN PROVED TO BE “AT IT”.
I have ceased to be surprised, my major concern now is the question, what does this say for what purports to be our democracy. Certainly in the EU Elections and Local for that matter, the big parties are going to feel the draught with UKIP, BNP and Green’s picking up votes by the ton. I will be voting UKIP is only to put a boot up their proverbials.

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