Tag Archive for ‘MP expenses’
Yet more expense questions for David Laws
It seems the newspapers are digging further in to David Laws expenses with new revelations and questions concerning his claims for travel allowances. Click here to see them. It appears they have calculated that David would have had to travel to and from the constituency three times a week by car and then still visited [...]
The elections to come
Next weeks elections are incredibly important. They are the first time that the people of the UK will have a chance to give a verdict on Gordon Brown, his Government and probably also the publics view about MPs expenses. All elections, other than the General Election, tend to be treated by the voter as a [...]
Not a good time to be a politician knocking on doors
For anyone who is a politician, or involved in politics in any way, the current mess over MPs expenses is another sign of peoples total disillusionment with the whole political system. Anyone knocking on doors – and there is a lot of that going on at the moment because of the elections – will be [...]
MPS expenses under the rack
The issue of MPs expenses will not go away, but what is the answer? The plea of those who appear in the papers is that their claims are all perfectly acceptable according to the rules. The cry of the public is that the the rules must change. It is easy to claim that MPs have [...]
MP’s expenses – again
You would have thought all the issues over MP’s expenses would have been in the past – and thatthey would have learnt their lesson. Well, it appears not. Harriet Harman has decided that the receipts that MP’s submit should not be in the public domain (even thought they are spending mine and your money). The [...]
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