What happens after the expenses row?

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:15

I've just watched an item on the BBC news in the UK which claimed that 'dozens' of MP's are considering standing down at the next election. In no way do I support any MP who claimed expenses of the kind we've seen in recent weeks, but, you have to wonder what will happen next.



If we make being an MP unattractive from a financial point of view (none of us would take a job that paid less than we currently receive or need to live on) are we likely to get a parliament populated by the wealthy who are completely cut off from the reality of daily living that most of us face?



Solutions on a postcard to Gordon Brown please!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:19

Andy.You can see what these politicians are trying to do - turn the whole thing round back to joe public. They've probably all discussed this and decided to multiple resign in the knowledge that joe public will panic and cry out for 'whose going to run the country if they all resign?'



It's a 'get-up'. Let the thieves resign, there are sure to be plenty more to take the jobs on and find another scam to rip us all off.

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:25

I hope you're right, but it still worries me. There's an old saying - Pay peanuts and you'll get monkeys.

Rogerdodger


Joined: 24/04/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:30

Just been on SKY news, the MP's who are to resign and step down before the next election will still be allowed to draw their pay and expences up to the elections next year, in addition they will also be getting a golden handshake of about £120.000, and a yearly pension of between £35.000 - £65.000 a year depending on time served, a discrace, more snouts in the trough



RD

Sunnycee


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:36

Who says crime does'nt pay??????:

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waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:39

Civil Servants can only claim full pension when they are age 60 - prior to that they lose in the region of 5% of pension per year up to age 60. Retire at 55 and you lose 25% pension and so on.



There had better not be a sudden full pension payment made to these highly paid thieves if they are below age 60 when they resign/retire or the Unions will call every other civil servant in the land out on strike - bet on it!



Only in the government can you defraud the public purse, get rewarded for doing it, retire early and still earn more than the normal person in the street who pays their wages anyway. Whatever happened to the legal system to keep these people off the streets and away from the taxes we all pay?

keithr


Joined: 20/08/2008
Posts: 720

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:52

String them all up from the nearest lampost...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 11:54

Tar and Feather 'em.

Rogerdodger


Joined: 24/04/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 12:14

Charge them with Theft and fraud, then send them to jail, but most of all make them pay the money back they have stolen from us, the tax payers



RD

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 12:24

Mesage 9 thats what they would do to us would they not !!! if we bucked the system



funny how they can just get their cheque books out to pay it back - shows how much money they have to the ready !!

Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 12:34

sienna



The system is bucked



That is the problem.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 12:48

Mess 10. They have the money ready because it is the wages they haven't needed to spend.

Moover321


Joined: 11/04/2009
Posts: 649

Message Posted:
29/05/2009 13:02

Nothing! They get paid off and they leave with a golden goodbye!