Thinking about it
How many of you would milk the system if you were an MP? How many of you have fiddled expenses?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:42, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'd milk it
'til it's teats were dry.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:46, Reply)

Never had the chance to fiddle expenses. Stole loads of pens and paper though.
But no doubt I'd milk the system. I'd say all the high and mighty things, but it's easy money, and I'd take it. I'd take the expenses likte the craven's they are.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:47, Reply)

Yeah, I'd take a fair bit,
But never more than anyone else.
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:50, Reply)

I'd be worried about getting caught out like they have
so I wouldn't bother. I do find it amusing that they're getting ridiculed for buying things like hobnobs and irons though, as well as moat cleaning services.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:50, Reply)

Now see here young madam!
I'll have you know that the moat needs regular maintainance if it's not to fill up with Grimes the gardener's rubbish, nor if it is to overflow with young fillies who have been disappointed by my son's bedspread! Hrumph!
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:51, Reply)

Your maot does?
well fuck dude, here I was thinking we were talking about scenic waterways around one's houses. No idea what you're on about.

Pfft to your stealth editing, I saw it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:53, Reply)

What was it that chap said?
Something along the lines of "The house came with a pool, and I didn't know how to maintain it. I got showed how to do it once, and that was the only claim I made. I believe this represents value for money for the taxpayer".

Sheee-it.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:55, Reply)

I wouldn't, and I say that honestly.
If you choose to be an MP, then you choose to be a servant of the people. There are, believe it or don't, some politicians who do the job and do it well.

Also, the hypocrisy of Journalists having a go a Politicians for cooking their expenses is almost tangible.

I firmly believem, as I think Billy Connolly once said, that people who want to be politicians shouldn't be allowed to.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:53, Reply)

Enforced politicians
I like this idea.

But I don't want to be an MP. Shut the fuck up and get up on the stage.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:56, Reply)

What, me?
Now?

*dances*

God, this is so degrading. At least I'm making money.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:59, Reply)

But...
B...b-b-b-but I don't wanna :(
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:59, Reply)

Too fucking bad
now dance for me bitches
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:11, Reply)

You said I could have
Ice cream on expenses :(
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:13, Reply)

Too bad, hefty cat eated it
and now there's none left
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:13, Reply)

Fine.
I'm not being the Home Secretary tomorrow then.
*flounces*
( Cawl, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:17, Reply)

Fine, DiT will
he wiggles better than you do and that's a fine thing to aspire to
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:20, Reply)

I'd like to think
that if I knew I were going to get caught, I'd buy a goat and a strip of land outside my front door, letting it graze up and down to keep it short and bouncy for guests, also employing a fair maid to milk the goat and sell its cheese from a stall to the side.

Then I could charge my honorable colleagues for keeping them off the front pages.

Something tells me it's way past bedtime...
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 18 May 2009, 23:04, Reply)

As Mr B Hicks (deceased) put it...
"All Politicians are lying cocksuckers. I'll repeat that in case you didn't quite catch me... ALL Politicians are LYING COCKSUCKERS"

and i think mr Conelly robbed that line from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 18 May 2009, 23:31, Reply)

Oh I'd milk the expenses system
But I'd go for quality over quantity. See exactly what the strangest thing was I could claim on expenses. "So, explain to me exactly why, you as a member of parliment have claimed a half dozen taxidermied spider monkeys dressed in victorian garb under travel expenses?".
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 19 May 2009, 1:26, Reply)