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MPs' expenses: things for policywonk to say if she gets the chance

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policywonk · 19/05/2009 17:15

So I'm off tomorrow afternoon to this panel discussion thing: here are the details

I'll go through the old thread tonight but post any more stuff here. Y'know, if you want to.

I'm SO OVER MPs' expenses.

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KayHarkerDoesNotSimper · 19/05/2009 17:34

Transparency, there's a buzz word.

rubyslippers · 19/05/2009 17:29

oh, if you can only ask one question, Leningrad's is good

rubyslippers · 19/05/2009 17:28

I am interested in the mindset of someone who is so mean but clearly has such an enormous sense of entitlement as to claim 89 pence on a bath plug

have they never worked in an office where you occasionally but the odd thing without shoving it through expenses? y' know like a pint of milk, a coffee etc

i suspect the answer to that is "no" and they are career politicians

i do feel that the politicians who have behaved correctly and with some moral compass clearly intact are having their reputations damaged by this

Oh, and this i am interested in - how do your FORGET you have actually paif your mortgage off and claim anyway?? Do you not have to submit statements

LeninGrad · 19/05/2009 17:26

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policywonk · 19/05/2009 17:23

I think I'm only going to get the chance to speak once. And that's not guaranteed either.

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KayHarkerDoesNotSimper · 19/05/2009 17:22

Can you say 'Up the revolution!' please.

And I'd like a MN in-joke in there somewhere.

Scootergrrrl · 19/05/2009 17:18

If the MPs televisions, enormous sofas, tennis courts and so on are being paid for with public money, shouldn't they technically belong to the country and have to be handed back if an MP leaves office? And can the Government not buy various flats in London to be used as MPs accomadation, rather like halls of residence but so VERY much posher?