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Last years expenses of MP's
BillieTheBot
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£78 million was claimed by MP's last year in expenses, just on bbc news
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Of course, they won't sort themselves out when there's some bloke down the road who's scamming the DSS out of £50 a week.
The average amount claimed by MPs was £118,361. The average MP spent: £16,509 on staying away from home; £17,436 on offices and/or surgeries; £66,623 on staff costs; £10,640 on travel; £1,094 on stationery; and £3,343 on postage in addition to a basic salary of £57,485.
There is, however, a wide variation in these figures. Labour MP Clair Curtis-Thomas, for Crosby near Liverpool, tops the list of MPs claiming the most in expenses at £168,889. In fact all of the highest-spending MPs in a crude expenditure level come from northern or Scottish constituencies, explaining the additional costs of travel and a second home.
Tony Blair makes it into the list of MPs claiming the least in expenses with a claim of £80,836; the lowest though is Mr Michael Trend who claimed £56,657.
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Expenses is on top of the salary
No, a complete bargain :yeees:
What a surprise that it was a Labour MP top of the list for expenses...
These men and women are incharge of running one of the most powerful nations on earth worth Trillions ... these expenses work out to be about £1.30p per head for every person in the country, they spent about 20 times more then that on the dome.
£78 Million is peanuts in the grand scale of things!!
That's about the cost of a single 767 Jet Plane.
But to say that they run the country is over-egging the pudding a little- the Cabinet runs the country, and the Shadow Cabinet complains about how they do so. The backbenchers do little, unless they are on their bestest behaviour and they get elected to a Select Committee.
There was a report yesterday that NASA Spent $600 Million trying to prove a theory of Einstein's, whilst two italian scientists proved the theory for free using existing equipment and data.
There's nothing wrong with spending Millions or Billions on anything if it's worthwhile, it's when they spend it on dumb things we should worry!!
That's the trouble;)
And a Conservative MP bottom of the list with the lowest expenses.
That's Labour isn't it?
It's not the total amount that bothers me (like it's been said, in real terms it's a drop in the ocean)- it's the actual act of freeloading that pisses me off.
There are a couple of MPs who live about 10-15 miles from Central London and who yet have somehow channelled expenses to pay the mortgage for a London apartment. Because obviously no one should be made to commute for such horrendous distances.
And then the system is so open for abuse. It's all very well to say the average MP spends 16K on 'away from home expenses' or 10K on travel. How exactly was that spent? How posh where the hotels these people chose to stay in? How many first class air tickets abroad when a business class or a premium economy would have more than be enough- unlike the immense majority of their constituents who can only afford cattle class?
Sadly not many people refuse the chance to jump on the gravy train.
but ...pretend you have a wooden leg to get fifty quid a week and your off to jail ...
As it has been said here in the last few days on other threads, it's the poor that's made to pay for it all while the rich and powerful defrauds the nation of far greater amounts and no one lifts a finger about it.