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Author:  pcernie [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:13 am ]
Post subject:  Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
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Gordon Brown has said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that "the worst offenders" should be prosecuted.

Hold on if these were benefit cheats they would all be prosecuted not just the worst offenders. They should all be prosecuted and all banned from holding public office.
Author:  pcernie [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
Amnesia10 wrote:
Quote:
Gordon Brown has said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that "the worst offenders" should be prosecuted.

Hold on if these were benefit cheats they would all be prosecuted not just the worst offenders. They should all be prosecuted and all banned from holding public office.


Good point :)
Author:  AlunD [ Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
pcernie wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Quote:
Gordon Brown has said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that "the worst offenders" should be prosecuted.

Hold on if these were benefit cheats they would all be prosecuted not just the worst offenders. They should all be prosecuted and all banned from holding public office.


Good point :)


+1 :D
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
Amnesia10 wrote:
Quote:
Gordon Brown has said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that "the worst offenders" should be prosecuted.

Hold on if these were benefit cheats they would all be prosecuted not just the worst offenders. They should all be prosecuted and all banned from holding public office.


+2

most of these so called honourable members will step down at the next election collecting massive pay outs and pensions funded by us the taxpayer

the taxpayer has to stop paying for these pay outs and pensions …
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Expenses Scandal Returns To Haunt MPs
MrStevenRogers wrote:

the taxpayer has to stop paying for these pay outs and pensions …


The tax payer will always pay these salaries and pensions - that is what public service is. The public elected them. Many of these claims were made within the rules at the time. If you change the rules at a point, it doesn't work retrospectively. Imagine it, you drive down a road at 50mph for years without a problem, then they decide it is going to become a 40mph zone. You would be a bit hacked off if they decided to go after everyone who had driven down the road at a previously legal speed, wouldn't you!

You get a "Notice of intended persecution" through the post for an act last year that has just been made an offence?? I don't think so. Public servants may be an easy target, but they are still people and believe it or not, they pay just as much tax as everyone else, but they get no state pension.
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