Peers at the trough?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10439805.stm

Nice 'work' if you can get it eh?
:mad:

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I thought I was lucky to get £100 a day for each day of supply teaching..:erm:

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I find it staggering.. I had to go through some many hoops to even attempt to claim my train fares to and from my recent first aid course , and that was just £2.60 a day, yet it seems working in Westminster, you can claim for pretty much anything.

I say "attempt" because work requires tickets, or other proof. However, I used my Oyster and for some reason, although they are able to give me print outs showing money coming off my pre-pay balance, TFL deny I made any journeys on that card on that period.. But that's a moan for another thread.

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Obviously corrupt Governments are not just a thing for third world countries then. :erm:
Still, We knew that all along didn`t we. Thieving *******s.:mad:

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Peers are not elected so they are not really Governement
They are an arachic link to the past and a drain the country could well do without. However they have been a buffer thats kept out some crazy laws so I guess its swings and roundabouts

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Sorry mate, my mistake. I just got mixed up with the politicians and expenses.:)

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Can't believe I missed this, I must be slipping in my old age and not paying enough attention to the propaganda of the right wing press.... :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ay-200000.html

I wonder how many of us wouldn't have been prosecuted in similar circumstances?? :mad:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15718233

Great! :mad:

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That is so wrong on so many levels.

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as i understand it this woman owns more that one property -that means one can be sold off to repay the money she stole

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firstly "wrongly claimed" should read "knowingly stole from the tax payer"

secondly ,how in gods name can the House of Lords not be able to force a peer to repay a debt owed .If i was cought fiddling expenses on that level i would be hauled in front of the courts by the company and ordered to pay the money back not to mention losing my job

Thirdly ,why can't they pay her the £300 a day expenses but just not give it her untill the debt is payed

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she's a disgrace to the house and the nation there must be a way to oust her

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apparently only the queen can do that ,so i ask myself ,why doesn't she

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and another thing ,how come Commons members get sent to jail (well some do ) but peers of the realm don't ?

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petition time ;)

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nope that just won't cut it ,this is definitely an angry mob brandishing pitch forks occasion