Brown to repay £12,415 expenses , page 1

The British PM will have to pay back some of his expenses. This was after an independant audit of the MPs' expenses. I did not know that cleaning and gardening costs 12000

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will repay £12,415 after an independent audit of all MPs' expenses claims since 2004.

Downing Street confirmed he would repay the money, largely for cleaning and gardening, even though the claims had been within the rules at the time.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk...

reply to post by sunny_2008ny

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Good, how about the billions he wasted on big government, public sector, the gold reserves fire sale, the sale of westinghouse, pensions tax relief, welfare for all.
god the list goes on, the man was a disaster! we will be paying for his largesse for generations.
I used to think he was a tragic figure, always meaning to do well but always failing.now i just think hes a n.w.o socialist fifth colulmist.

reply to post by sunny_2008ny

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The fact is, the MP'S were to scared to raise their wages to what they thought they should be paid, so made the expenses so vast and the rules so vague soit could be made up here.

MP'S do an important job whether people care to admit it or not, and not all now go in based on belief and idelogy, for some its now a career, and we should be paying them more in a way to attract some of the best and brightest away from bussiness, where the money is greater.

Originally posted by Peruvianmonk
reply to post by sunny_2008ny

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The fact is, the MP'S were to scared to raise their wages to what they thought they should be paid, so made the expenses so vast and the rules so vague soit could be made up here.

I never thought of it that way.......if thats true it makes the whole situation far far worse in my opinion.

Scared MPs creating and hiding behind vague rules to get what they think they deserve? I'd much rather they were caught blatently fiddling.

reply to post by cazzy2211

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I agree, i assume they felt if they tried to raise their wages through an act of Parliament, it would be open to the Press who would no doubt have mercilessly attacked it arguing they were not worth all this money. MP'S in the UK are actually paid comparitively less than many on the continent and across the World.www.thefirstpost.co.uk... e-india-politics

Now this isn't an excuse for the massive amount of dodgey expenses allowed, although it is definitley a reason. Obviously the whole thing has backfired on them, as expenses will contract and there is absolutely no chance of the MP'S getting through a pay increase now or in the forseeable future.

There is also the argument that MPS are in fact very well paid and fall into the 3 highest % of British wage earners.www.kuwaitobserver.com...

I am not trying to be an apoligist for the MP'S many of whom have acted disgracefully and should be prosucuted where they have broken the law, i'm just trying to put it into some kind of context instead of jumping on the media bandwagon

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