[doganjo]

In the same way that  have been ripping Tax payers off for years, polluting the countryside, harassing Ramblers and ploughing up Rights of way, grubbing up miles of ancient hedges, turning vast areas into deserts to produce highly subsidised grain mountains. Spreading Bovine TB and Foot and Mouth, and then expecting the Tax payer to pick up the Tab to compensate for dead animals. Pay insurance like the rest of us!

Don't understand this - are you referring to the discussion on night trains or to something else?  Don't think paying insurance would help stop the night trains somehow

[sandy]

OK, so the PM did turn up shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[doganjo]

Don't know what is so secret.  They are stockpiling coal from Hunterston to Longannet so they can do their carbon thingy experiment and keeping me awake in the process!

[TonytheWood]

In the same way that  have been ripping Tax payers off for years, polluting the countryside, harassing Ramblers and ploughing up Rights of way, grubbing up miles of ancient hedges, turning vast areas into deserts to produce highly subsidised grain mountains. Spreading Bovine TB and Foot and Mouth, and then expecting the Tax payer to pick up the Tab to compensate for dead animals. Pay insurance like the rest of us!

Don't understand this - are you referring to the discussion on night trains or to something else?  Don't think paying insurance would help stop the night trains somehow

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Hi    & Jo

I thought that this thread was about MPs' £££££ But it seems to have morphed into 'summat batt t'trains?   

 

  's boy/L-S

[sandy]

Thats conversation for  you!!! My mind rambles freely so, I think do others, I wish my body was as active as my mind!!!!!

I suppose, regarding expenses, loads of people put in false claims and get away with it, I never did as my expenses for Social Services, were scrutinized to the penny!!! One thing I have a great deal of anger about is people who falsely claim disability related benefits and those who are suffering with injuries and disabilities do not claim but struggle on working, on this subject I could go on and on but I will not diversify...SORRY

[Crofter]

I don't understand the reference to insurance in either context!

[doganjo]

Nor me, that's why I asked "are you referring to the discussion on night trains or to something else"

[lovespigs]

We could prosecute the thiefs but that would only cost us tax payers even more.

[danndans]

I think you'l find we do pay insurance...........................you obviously have no insight of everyday farming life whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sellickbhoy]

woohoo, Jim Devine is now in the crapper for the expenses scandal - he is of course very closely associated with my own dear MP - from whom i still haven't received any legal writs whatsoever. So time for me to go poke him again and ask him if he is starting to worry that the cushy wee number he's had for 17 years is now over

[sandy]

I haven't voted for years even though I had strong ideas of what I liked and did not like but now!!!! who would you choose, time to decide. I think Mps should be accountable to thier public and so get voted out if they are not doing thier job. If there are any MPs on this site I have a question..."Is it really such a hard job?"

[jameslindsay]

I heard on the radio this morning, and it did make me laugh, next week is officially the week where we should be praying and offering support for our politicians. What crap will they some up with next? It's a wonder the greetings card makers don't have printed cards for this occasion!

[jameslindsay]

Don't these as* holes never learn?


MPs have introduced new rules that allow them to claim £25 a night without producing a receipt.

The subsistence allowance, worth £9,125 a year, can be claimed for food and drink any night they spend away on business and was introduced this month in a new parliamentary green book.

The rules appear to have been approved without any debate in the Commons before MPs left for the summer recess.

In the wake of the expenses scandal in April, MPs voted for a series of measures that included the requirement of receipts for everything claimed.

[rustyme]

in a word NO ... approve the rule before the summer break, then after 82 days, those thickies (us)  will have something else to worry about ....in the mean time we get even more money .....seems to be the way they think ? ... they couldn't give a flying **** really . Push Push Push , and they will always get away with it ! The only way round it is to kick up a fuss and try to vote them out . They are now in such a mindset, that they truly believe they can do what they want , and do , and we allow them to do so .  Bring on the revolution .....oh no ... they have that covered now too ...anti terrorism laws....but even with those laws , I can see a day, not too far away, when , TSWHTF....



cheers

Russ

[sheila]

I haven't voted for years even though I had strong ideas of what I liked and did not like but now!!!! who would you choose, time to decide. I think Mps should be accountable to thier public and so get voted out if they are not doing thier job. If there are any MPs on this site I have a question..."Is it really such a hard job?"

mrs Pankhurst must be turning in her grave!