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VINEGARLIZ President of the DACS fanclub
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Post: #41 (ID: 114847)  Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:17 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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Don't watch it.............coz Ah wanna fire them ALL! 
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Jeni
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Post: #42 (ID: 114869) Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:47 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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I made it through 4 minutes and 31 seconds before stopping.
Guuuuuuh, he's so...
I guess I ought to see it to appreciate it.
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On soulless feet we cross the floor
The music stops as if to answer
An empty knocking at the door
It seems his skin was sweet as mango
When last I held him to my breast
But now we dance this grim fandango
And will four years before we rest."
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Post: #44 (ID: 114920) Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:26 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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jamie Left-handed Welsh Git
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Post: #46 (ID: 114926) Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:44 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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OH, so this is what they were talking about on Jeremy Vine... I think the Telegraph is going to release them uncensored on Saturday.
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On soulless feet we cross the floor
The music stops as if to answer
An empty knocking at the door
It seems his skin was sweet as mango
When last I held him to my breast
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And will four years before we rest."
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Post: #48 (ID: 114936) Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:13 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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| IY wrote: | I've now decided we've reached the point where we should take the "Big Brother" route with Politics and follow the MPs around with cameras 24 hours a day to see what they're wasting our money on or who they're having affairs with...... then we get to vote them out of Parliament.
Plus it would be a great ratings grabber and we could use the advertising revenue to pay back all that money the Government have borrowed to bail out the banks. |
I like this idea. 
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Post: #49 (ID: 115717) Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:32 pm Karma this post: (+0 -0)
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The results of the investigation into expenses has been announced. More than half the MP's have to repay expenses. And 4 of them were charged with fraud, and face up to 7 years in prison.
However, they claim they are above the law : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7017304.ece
Fraud charges:
| Copy-Pasted from elsewhere : | Mr Morley, MP for Scunthorpe, was charged with claiming £14,428 more than he was entitled on mortgage costs for a property in Winterton, Lincolnshire. He then claimed a further £16,000 after the mortgage had been paid off.
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| Copy-Pasted from elsewhere : | Mr Chaytor was accused of using faked invoices to claim for £1,950 of IT services. He also claimed £12,925 for renting a property in Regency Street, Central London, which he already owned, as well as claiming rent on a property owned by his mother.
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| Copy-Pasted from elsewhere : | Mr Devine, MP for Livingston, faces charges for using fake invoices to claim £3,240 for cleaning and £5,505 for stationery.
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| Copy-Pasted from elsewhere : | Lord Hanningfield’s charges include making “numerous claims for overnight staying in London when records show that he was driven home”.
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More: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7016392.ece
The report in full: http://www.jamiejones.org/misc/mps-expenses.pdf
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MPs and Commons officials colluded in a "deeply flawed" expenses system that allowed politicians to decorate their homes for free, spend thousands on luxury furniture and claim taxpayers' cash without even providing receipts, the final official inquiry reported today.
Sir Thomas Legg, the former civil servant charged with investigating every single Commons expense claimed between 2004 and 2009, concludes that MPs were collectively overpaid by more than £1m amid a "culture of deference" that routinely put their interests ahead of the public's.
Legg's report exposes fresh instances of the extent to which MPs abused the system to claim for swimming pool pumps, £150 vases and antiques. But it also reveals for the first time the names of those who have been completely cleared of any wrongdoing: 52% of the 752 current and former MPs who were investigated have been asked to repay cash, and 48% have been exonerated.
Out of £55.5m spent on personal expenses during the years under review, 390 MPs have been ordered by Legg to repay a total of £1.3m. But that amount was reduced to £1.12m after MPs appealed against his decisions to the former judge Sir Paul Kennedy. Of the £1.12m, more than £300,000 has yet to be repaid.
The report highlights MPs buying and renting homes from relatives and friends, an act which it says breached "propriety". It also heaps blame on the Commons fees office, saying the relationship between fees officials and MPs was "symbiotic" in the now discredited process.
Legg himself, however, was criticised by Kennedy and many MPs. "It was lazy because he didn't answer the points that were put to him individually, it was incompetent because he got so much arithmetic wrong, and it was illogical because he applied retrospective limits to some things but not to others," the Tory Ann Widdecombe said.
Phil Hope, the care minister, repaid £42,674.13, more than any other MP, after an outcry last year over his claims for furniture and fittings.
Otherwise the largest sums ordered to be repaid by sitting MPs – after appeals are taken into account – were:
• £42,458 by Barbara Follett, the communities minister and MP for Stevenage, including the £34,776.30 cost of mobile security patrols at her home; half the cost of an "excessive" six telephone lines at her home at £4,454.18; an insurance premium of £2,812.95 for fine art; £221 after being paid twice for boiler insurance; and £193.78 for pest control at an address that was not her second home.
• £36,250 by Bernard Jenkin, the Tory MP for North Essex, the rent of his second home from his sister-in-law.
• £31,193 by Andrew MacKay, Conservative MP for Bracknell and £29,243 by his wife, Julie Kirkbride, MP for Bromsgrove, for claiming on different homes as their second home.
• £29,398 by John Gummer, Tory MP for Suffolk Coastal, for the costs of cleaning, gardening and repair of a lawnmower.
• £24,878 by shadow defence secretary and Woodspring MP Liam Fox for overpayments, mainly in mortgage interest.
All three main party leaders made repayments: Gordon Brown repaid £13,723.04 in cleaning, decoration and gardening expenses, David Cameron £965.45 in mortgage interest paymentsand Nick Clegg £989.50 in gardening costs.
Mortgage and rent formed the biggest chunk of the repayment bill: 208 MPs were asked to return £711,000 for their second homes. | |
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