The claim was for internet.
but as I said. Virginmedia are lumping the billing for all services together.
Even so any MP will be claiming TV expenses as a legitimate expense. I'd be quite annoyed if MPs were not using all available media to keep abreast of world events.
My point is that expense fiddling is rife. It's never been any different in parliament ( regardless of party affiliation. Joe Public paid for the conservative's whores in the early 80s ) and being angry today because something made the news is pointless if you were not angry about it when it wasn't in the news.
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Mon 30 Mar 2009, 14:07,
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Even so any MP will be claiming TV expenses as a legitimate expense. I'd be quite annoyed if MPs were not using all available media to keep abreast of world events.
My point is that expense fiddling is rife. It's never been any different in parliament ( regardless of party affiliation. Joe Public paid for the conservative's whores in the early 80s ) and being angry today because something made the news is pointless if you were not angry about it when it wasn't in the news.
I agree with you - fiddling expenses is rife
but when the said expenses comes from general taxation you can understand why people would be upset, regardless of whichever bunch if inept tossers are in charge at the time. We're in recession; people are losing their jobs left right and centre so people will be upset about the whole affair.
I dare say the Tories put in some mad claims back when they were in charge (I seem to remember a Tory MP putting wallpaper costing £5000 a roll on his expenses back in the early 90s)
All MP expenses need to be audited every year and any irregularity investigated by an independant body.
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Mon 30 Mar 2009, 14:18,
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I dare say the Tories put in some mad claims back when they were in charge (I seem to remember a Tory MP putting wallpaper costing £5000 a roll on his expenses back in the early 90s)
All MP expenses need to be audited every year and any irregularity investigated by an independant body.