am I the only person who couldn't care less about MP's expenses? The only realistic response is to increase their salaries and decrease their expenses. The use of expenses has always been understood, for anyone who cared to look, as a way of topping up an incommensurately low salary.
2 hours ago ·
yeah god how could they survive on just the £65k (parliament.uk) they earn as a base rate, a mere £40k more than the average british citizen (statistics.gov.uk) and a mere £60k more than the average human(success-and-culture.net - from a World Bank report)?
I didn't care at first but nigh on every one of the ***** has failed to pay anything back. In fact the one's who didn't quit have just given themselves a pay rise while cutting, capping or scrapping across the rest of government expenditure. GB, DC and all the other big names came out to condemn the situation roundly while doing nothing, and now the four nominated scapegoats are claiming parliamentary privilege.
I didn't care at first but nigh on every one of the ***** has failed to pay anything back. In fact the one's who didn't quit have just given themselves a pay rise while cutting, capping or scrapping across the rest of government expenditure. GB, DC and all the other big names came out to condemn the situation roundly while doing nothing, and now the four nominated scapegoats are claiming parliamentary privilege.
"The protection of privilege applies only to proceedings in Parliament." (justice.gov.uk). While it is ultimately at Parliament's discretion to decide what is covered (ibid), the examples presented (ibid) are all papers, amendments, motions or bills. By 'bills' I presume they don't mean receipts...
As the only noble scoundrel, Michael Martin, put it himself on December 5th 2008 (Hansard). "I should also remind the House, as stated in chapter 7 of “Erskine May,” that parliamentary privilege has never prevented the operation of the criminal law. [Interruption.] Order. The Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege in its authoritative report in 1999 said that the precincts of the House are not and should not be “a haven from the law”."
They're taking the ******* piss out of us.
As the only noble scoundrel, Michael Martin, put it himself on December 5th 2008 (Hansard). "I should also remind the House, as stated in chapter 7 of “Erskine May,” that parliamentary privilege has never prevented the operation of the criminal law. [Interruption.] Order. The Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege in its authoritative report in 1999 said that the precincts of the House are not and should not be “a haven from the law”."
They're taking the ******* piss out of us.
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