The Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has announced that 3 Labour MPs and 1 Conservative Peer have been charged by the CPS for criminal offences for claims. The 4 politicians will go on trial. The Politicians in question are Elliot Morley MP , David Chaytor MP , Jim Devine MP and Tory Peer Lord [...]
Well its that time of year again, more MP’s expenses have been released by Parliament for the year 2008 up until the first half of 2009 just before the original scandal broke shortly before the European elections held in June. And just like the previous lot of expenses there’s certain MP’s who have been claiming [...]
According to Conservative MP Alan Duncan, MP’s are forced to live off rations and are being treated like shit. Rations eh Mr Duncan well that’s not bad for an MP who earns £65,000 a year plus up to £24,000 in expenses. Not bad for the millionaire tory who is often seen with ‘luxuries’ hardly rations [...]
I was pleased to hear this morning on BBC News 24 that Sir Stuart Bell MP has confirmed that there will be an independent body established for MP’s expenses. Whilst MP’s from across all political parties have been claiming for certain things that they shouldn’t be claiming for with our money, taxpayer’s money. It is [...]
Well as we all know there has been much controversy over MP’s expenses. Today Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated that he wants a flat rate Commons payment that would be based on attendance of MP’s ‘to restore people’s confidence’ and he is quite right, the electorate don’t want their MP claiming ridiculous amounts of [...]
