| Topic: | This is all very sad | |
| Posted by: | Sarah Felstead | |
| Date/Time: | 13/05/09 14:34:00 |
| "Competitive bumping however is a little silly" I can't see how you can say anything is competitive about bringing the constant discussions about MPs to the top of the page to see what has been said about the issue over many years. What is really silly is how we all look on the world stage; how we encourage people to vote and how we get the right people to have the want to go into Parliament having tasted the outside world and then peeked into this strange one though the TV cameras. This situation is a complete disgrace and to hear what is being said by some MPs to justify their claims is incredible. One poor chap (!) appeared so incensed about people picking over his expenses that he demanded on a news programme that they consider taking the biscuits out of the green room. The rules now being 'blamed' let the MPs down. When they entered Parliament they appear to have settled in to claiming what they could and not what they should in the spirit of guarding the public purse and doing the very privileged job they were elected to do. Any MP who proudly states they didn’t make outrageous claims cannot hide because they must have known it was going on and now the situation reflects badly on them too. 'Change' must be the most over used and yet meaningless political spin word in history – you have to work out what is going on, in order to work out what 'change' should be. The real change in this system starts with enabling people to ask the right questions to challenge what is going wrong. I feel really sorry for the poor sod who apparently tried to tell the Speaker that things weren't quite right. It would be a distraction to send the Police after whoever leaked this information - if their name is announced they will probably receive a few million nominations for a medal or two. Of course the Police should be involved if payments have been made on claims which clearly are not reasonable for running a second home to be near to parliament resulting in a loss to the public purse just as anyone would expect of a common benefit thief. I am pretty angry as I regard the right to vote very important, driven home recently by researching the 1911 census where thousands of women refused to take part in the census in protest at not being allowed to vote. My sons are at work where this is on the radio and the canteen is full of discussion about flipping houses and evading this or that tax - all spoken about in terms of a huge fraud - and they wonder about taking and using their vote. Now the 'secret is out' it is not being handled very well either - listen to Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8047000/8047366.stm |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 31/03/09 19:34:00 | David Giles |
| Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 31/03/09 22:05:00 | Keith Iddon |
| Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 31/03/09 22:10:00 | Michael Brandt |
| CBS news | 02/04/09 17:19:00 | Sarah Felstead |
| Re:CBS news | 02/04/09 19:32:00 | Steve Taylor |
| Re:Re:CBS news | 02/04/09 20:13:00 | Sarah Felstead |
| Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 04/04/09 01:15:00 | Margaret Elizabeth Shaw |
| Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 04/04/09 09:36:00 | Phil Andrews |
| Re:Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 04/04/09 10:49:00 | Steve Taylor |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 04/04/09 12:33:00 | Phil Andrews |
| Re:Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 12/05/09 13:27:00 | Tony Wood |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 12/05/09 14:51:00 | Margaret Elizabeth Shaw |
| Bump Bump Bump | 12/05/09 12:21:00 | Sarah Felstead |
| Re:Bump Bump Bump | 13/05/09 08:14:00 | Dan Filson |
| Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 13/05/09 11:53:00 | Phil Andrews |
| This is all very sad | 13/05/09 14:34:00 | Sarah Felstead |
| Re:This is all very sad | 14/05/09 12:39:00 | Sarah Felstead |
| Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 13/05/09 20:24:00 | Steve Taylor |
| Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 13/05/09 22:43:00 | Dan Filson |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 14/05/09 19:46:00 | David Giles |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 14/05/09 22:34:00 | Dan Filson |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 15/05/09 12:48:00 | David Giles |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 15/05/09 12:59:00 | Margaret Elizabeth Shaw |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 15/05/09 19:26:00 | Dan Filson |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bump Bump Bump | 20/05/09 13:50:00 | David Giles |
| Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 20/05/09 17:51:00 | David Giles |
| Re:Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 20/05/09 21:00:00 | Steve Taylor |
| Re:Re:Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 20/05/09 21:29:00 | Craig Quilliam |
| Re:Re:Re:Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 20/05/09 21:46:00 | Steve Taylor |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 21/05/09 10:12:00 | Margaret Elizabeth Shaw |
| Re:Re:Re:Ann Keen's Expenses in 2007- 2008 | 21/05/09 13:11:00 | Bernadette Paul |
| Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 22/05/09 13:03:00 | Robert A Field |
| Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 22/05/09 16:17:00 | Fraser Pearce |
| Re:Re:Re:Brentford has Britain's most costly MP | 22/05/09 19:49:00 | Dan Filson |