Another Labour minister caught fiddling house expenses

[turbobloke]

theaxe said:

Why can't we just pay MPs more and be done with all this crap?

Not a bad idea but let's get the key matters of eligibility and selection criteria right first.

[HOGEPH]

theaxe said:

Why can't we just pay MPs more and be done with all this crap?

Let's pay them what they are worth...fk All

[turbobloke]

HOGEPH said:

theaxe said:

Why can't we just pay MPs more and be done with all this crap?

Let's pay them what they are worth...fk All

Finding it difficult to disagree, but only for the status quo. If eligibility and selection were sorted, and MPs paid appropriately afterwards as a result, the country would be more sorted too.

[theaxe]

Indeed, being an MP is a thankless task at the best of times. If all goes well you get zero thanks and if things go badly you get no end of hassle. The only real incentive is the prestige of the job, perks and pensions.

Sooo, if we made the job more attractive with a proper salary then more qualified people might be tempted to have a go.

As an aside how do MPs get away with 'expenses' that breach the inland revenue rules? Are they legally a special case?

Edited by theaxe on Sunday 22 March 18:03

[HOGEPH]

Bill Hicks said it years ago.

"..all governments are lying cocksuckers."

[esselte]

elster said:

s3fella said:

If it is all within the rules, why did he mysteriously stop claiming it in January, shortly before the "scandal" of that other waste of skin Jackie Smith's expenses scandal came to the fore.....?

You do realise he isn't the one sat there doing his expenses. Or even the one advising the person filling in the expenses.

No,he's jus the one who's raking all this tax free money in.....