MP Expenses Scandal: Our Critters have an ‘allowance’ as well don’t they?
Where is some American journOlist to even pretend to do their job and do an investigation into Congress’ claimed expenses at this time of record spending, the way The Telegraph did…
The British seem pretty pixxed finally and just as Brown is raising income taxes..again….
(L to R top) Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw, Lord Mandleson (L to R Bottom) Hazel Blears, Andy Burnham, Douglas Alexander, John Prescott Photo: PA
The Telegraph: This is Why We Pay Tax?
MPs’ expenses: The Telegraph’s investigation into how politicians – from Gordon Brown and his Cabinet to backbenchers of all parties – exploit the system of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.
and DIGG has it up here
MPs’ expenses investigation in depth
Douglas Alexander: spent more than £30,000 doing up his constituency home – which then suffered damage in a house fire.
Margaret Beckett: £600 claim for hanging baskets and pot plants
Hazel Blears: claims for three different properties in a year
Gordon Brown: house swap let PM claim thousands
Andy Burnham: had an eight-month battle with the fees office after making a single expenses claim for more than £16,500
Alistair Darling: stamp duty paid by public
Caroline Flint: claimed £14,000 for fees for new flat
Geoff Hoon: established a property empire worth £1.7 million after claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for at least two properties.
Lord Mandelson: questions over timing of his house claim
David Miliband: spending challenged by his gardener
Paul Murphy: had a new plumbing system installed at taxpayers’ expense because the water in the old one was “too hot”.
John Prescott: two lavatory seats in two years
Jack Straw: only paid half the amount of council tax that he claimed back on his parliamentary allowances over four years.
Shaun Woodward: millionaire minister received £100,000 to help pay mortgage
I have NO doubt our Congress Critters are wasting taxpayer dollars in similar ways, if only we had a free press…
Moderate in the Middle 