More Mp's Sleaze

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/revealed-17-mps-claim-1-214850643.html

If I had rented out my Company Car I would have been sacked instantly.

But MPs do it with the second homes and remain in post.

Nice work if you can get it.

[gulliver1]

Up to their necks in sleaze are the Cons, they just can't help it can they Canary.
They start with just putting there fingers in the till to see if anyone notices then the wrists and before you know it they are in it up to their elbows,then their necks.

[Mozz71]

MPs know how to bend the books. Theyve been doing it for decades, and not only the Tories.

[THECORBYLOON]

If the rules allow them to do that, they are doing nothing wrong so perhap the rules should be changed?

[Peter Pedant]

erm because you cant sleep in a car wivvart da rozzaz knocking on the window and asking
( and you cant have sex in a car either)
erm
and you can in a house

foo I have a lickle doggie and if I let it out as a guard dog
does that mean I have a right to be a beef-eater in the Tower

As Klute says in the film called er Klute - - I like your mind....

The reason why they can claim rent on a harse in Lundy is that it used exclusively for work... and so under all the rules for expenses it is claimable
I was a finance councillor thingey once

[Peter Pedant]

fingers in the till
and snouts in the trough gully
and historically

that was the labour party....

The tories tended to start wars....

[jno]

times change, PP

The Tories' new treasurer is about to get rich(er)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/12/tory-treasurer-could-net-millions-from-controversial-lv-takeover

Presumably a place in the Lords is already on the way as every Tory treasurer for the last 20 years has been offered one.

[youngmafbog]

On the subject of peerages:

Between 1 May 1997 and 31 January 2020, 717 life peerages were created:

Tony Blair (May 1997-June 2007) 374
Gordon Brown (June 2007-May 2010) 34
David Cameron (May 2010-July 2016) 245
Thresa May (July 2016-July 2019) 43
Boris Johnson (July 2019-present*) 21

Total (May 1997-present*) 717
* to 31 January 2020

[youngmafbog]

//Up to theThir necks in sleaze are the Cons, they just can't help it can they Canary.//

And the others dont do it? The whole H0C needs looking at and this sort of thing needs clamping down on. By trying to make it political you are detracting from the underlying problem of our awful MP's from all colours.

And then we should get shot of the HoL. The whole ruddy lot of them it has become a posh care home for MP's and will probably get worse since they dont have the EU gravy train anymore.

[Bobbisox1]

18-45 , “ the tories tend to start wars”
Are you conveniently forgetting Mr New Labour himself , the man who went charging into Iraq ?

[gulliver1]

Of course the Tories start Wars, just look what Thatcher did in the Falklands just to save her own neck to get re/elected. ...That was unforgivable.

[davebro]

I think you'll find it was the Argentine invasion (staged for purely political reasons) that precipitated the Falklands war.

[gulliver1]

The Falkland war was a blessing in disguise ,Thatcher could not believe her luck.
It was like Manna from heaven for...... " The Gruesome Lady "......

[Deskdiary]

Are you actually serious Gulliver? Jesus wept I hope not, otherwise you’re even more stupid than I originally thought you were.

Blair should be sitting behind a persepex screen at The Hague for his war crimes, and yet astonishingly he seems to be Teflon with the Left. Funny that.