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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 10, 2009 15:00:21 GMT
Oh I think they should pay more tax, Feral.
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Post by feral on Feb 10, 2009 15:03:18 GMT
What exactly do you think expenses are ?
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 10, 2009 15:04:41 GMT
I mean, the average MP earns £60,000. Anyone earning a vast sum like that should be paying much, much more tax than they do.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Feb 10, 2009 15:06:11 GMT
But corruption has a trickle down effect.
If people see corruption at the top it goes right through society till it hits the bottom. Bankers, Estate Agent & Traffic Wardens.
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Post by mids on Feb 10, 2009 15:06:29 GMT
Spot on from top columnist, Littlejohn by the way.
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 10, 2009 15:09:06 GMT
I don't think people really take their lead from MPs, WKC.
And I don't think they are anywhere near the worst offenders.
And I think people often confuse high salaries, decent expenses etc with "corruption". I honestly can't understand why people get all worked up over the people running the country getting £60k plus expenses, but you try taxing an millionaire offshore exile a little bit more and it's all "we'll lose valuable talent!!" etc etc. It's all to cock.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 10, 2009 15:11:21 GMT
I don't think for a minute it's corruption. I'm sure it is entirely legal. It's fooking immoral though and I'd call it taking the p1ss.
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Post by mids on Feb 10, 2009 15:25:07 GMT
It is corruption. As you say it may not be exactly illegal. although a Tory MP got done for exactly what Jack E Smith is doing and had to resign his seat over it, but it's still feckin corrupt.
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Post by sushimo on Feb 10, 2009 15:57:08 GMT
It's just out and out greed, the "I'm all right Jaque' mentality we've been putting up with for decades from the people who are being PAID BY US!!!
Time we sacked the lot of them and started thinking about forming our own government? By the people, for the people - heard something like that before too!
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Post by Woolf on Feb 10, 2009 17:46:49 GMT
Richard Timney is Jacqui Smith's husband and was recently discovered to be bombarding their local paper with letters praising his wife and attacking the Conservatives.
That explains the Parliamentary Assistant job then.
Its very easy to be within the rules on expenses, given that MP write and approve them.
Given that they are so vague, you would have to work hard to actually break them.
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Post by peakman on Feb 11, 2009 10:27:01 GMT
Know that ad on T.V. the one that's supposed to put the frighteners on benefit cheats? Why can't they make them more entertaining, by running a series that zeros in on a different well known politician each evening. ;D Just a thought.
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Post by Woolf on Feb 11, 2009 13:11:29 GMT
That would be hard to do in a 30 second ad.
Given how bent some of the politicians are, a 3 hour in depth expose would just scratch the surface.
(coughMandlesoncough)
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