no they are not all theives....
We have to remember what the allowance was there for... To Help support Mp's who do not represent London Area's... After all how many Mp's can afford both a house in their constituency and in London? Now in my opinion there should simply be government flats that can be used by Mp's when in London. Also not all Mp's did use and abuse the allowance, Its really unfortunate that so many good mp's are being tarred with a bad brush.



As for HH i havn't got the time or the space to write down everything that annoys me about that woman...

i think there is a big difference between a big name politician and a good politician... After all the good ones are too busy to make a big media name for themselves!!! ;) But example's of Mp's that have not abused the system would be Mr Afriyie and bob Spink

what annoys me most about British politics is the party whip system.

next year.

but don't worry it wont make much difference over all :D

well thats a different question... We could have a new Pm if someone in the Labour party decides to try and oust him and actually manages it... HH for example or Mandy...

But if that did happen again not much would change to be honest... Gordon Brown is not the be all and end all of this counrys problems right now.

See, my problem with the expenses "scandal" (more like moral outrage at something we all knew was going on but nobody actually wanted to point out) is MPs expenses. Or to be more accurate, the entire system we have of paying MPs. I want wholesale reform. I'm talking radical. First of all, a housing allowance is farcical. Build a big dormitory for MPs. I'm not talking Uni Halls of Residence standards here, do it up like a hotel, but one big area where they all stay rent free is cheaper than letting them all rent, and us just paying the rent for them.

Next, well, we need to scrap expenses altogether. I'm sorry but food expenses? How many jobs give their employees a shopping allowance? No. All these things can be manipulated far too easily as we've seen with duck moat and so many other glorious examples of British democracy in action. Lets increase MP flat salary. Now, these people are meant to be running the country so they should be fucking capable, and alot of capable people are unfortunately far too greedy. I mean I'm sure if they knew of the cooshy expenses which double the salary there'd be less hopeless saps as MPs. But yeah, lets just increase MP salaries. And I'm talking a drastic increase. Say £120,000 a year as a number picked out of thin air. Maybe even £150,000. That's a fucking big salary. You can buy your own vegetables on that wage. And pay your own train fares. The only expense they can claim is for office equipment, staff and that sort of stuff. Bin all living expenses. Yeah, they can still hire their kids or whatever, but fuck it, I'm sure there is a way to vet their employees or something to cut out paying a wage to a family member who does fuck all.

And yeah, maybe that doesn't sound all that radical, but when you put it into the context of the Houses of Parliament where nothing changes, it is. I mean MPs are not likely to change things themselves because voting for such a massive payrise would be seen as electoral suicide.

Rincewind, Mandy won't stand a chance. It's been 107 years since the last PM who sat in the House Of Lords and it would never wash now. Tory, The Marquess of Salisbury if you care.