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[Nickbat]

So, this MP didn't realise for 20 months that his mortgage had been paid off. Oh, I "should have kept a tighter rein" and I feel "terrible about the situation".

Yes, I bet he does.


"A former environment minister has admitted claiming £16,000 on expenses for a mortgage that did not exist.

Labour MP Elliot Morley claimed £800 per month for a property in SLady bitshorpe, Lincolnshire, when the mortgage had already been paid.

Mr Morley told the BBC he repaid the money after realising he had mistakenly continued claiming for his mortgage payments after it was repaid in 2006."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8049096.stm

Apparently, the best bits are to come, including an item on Westminster "couples". This is like a soap.  

[unlucky alf]

its like a soap alright, theyll come out of it clean in the end

[HerefordElite]

bring back guy fawkes

[CaptainZok]

How can you tell when an MP is lying?































His lips move.
The old ones are the best.

[Pete Elite]

bring back guy fawkes

 Why where is he, on the Costa-Del-Tax-Payer .

[Pete Elite]

So, this MP didn't realise for 20 months that his mortgage had been paid off. Oh, I "should have kept a tighter rein" and I feel "terrible about the situation".

Yes, I bet he does.


"A former environment minister has admitted claiming £16,000 on expenses for a mortgage that did not exist.

Labour MP Elliot Morley claimed £800 per month for a property in SLady bitshorpe, Lincolnshire, when the mortgage had already been paid.

Mr Morley told the BBC he repaid the money after realising he had mistakenly continued claiming for his mortgage payments after it was repaid in 2006."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8049096.stm

Apparently, the best bits are to come, including an item on Westminster "couples". This is like a soap.  

   Blimey Nick, where you been, happens all the time .

[Vamps]

There does seem to be a massive can of worms opening.  I feel that those MP's who are so keen to pay back money must feel that their claim was a bit iffy in the first place. If genuine within the rules why would you offer to pay it back? it is the system that is wrong and needs changing.  Here we are talking MP's but what about all the top bankers, no one has mentioned their expense accounts.

Where expense's are available, be it government or private companies there will always be abuse, most of which goes without being noticed.

[albitz]

I would imagine that the more marginal the seat,the faster they are paying back.

[Pete Elite]

But what's next, giving burglars the chance to give the swag back if their caught out and let em off scott free .

[Darth Loo-knee]

So who has the POwer to just "Sack" these MP's for such things?

If someone did sack them, then start again with new blood they would think twice about doing the same.

Also the disgraced MP's should me made to go on Job Seekers Allowance for at least two years to see how they can survive on that money, using there money (savings) to keep them at the lifestyle they are accustomed too....

[CaptainZok]

So who has the POwer to just "Sack" these MP's for such things?

If someone did sack them, then start again with new blood they would think twice about doing the same.

Also the disgraced MP's should me made to go on Job Seekers Allowance for at least two years to see how they can survive on that money, using there money (savings) to keep them at the lifestyle they are accustomed too....

Sod that just string the lot of them from the nearest lamp post.
Up the Revolution.

[Pete Elite]

So who has the POwer to just "Sack" these MP's for such things?

If someone did sack them, then start again with new blood they would think twice about doing the same.

Also the disgraced MP's should me made to go on Job Seekers Allowance for at least two years to see how they can survive on that money, using there money (savings) to keep them at the lifestyle they are accustomed too....

Sod that just string the lot of them from the nearest lamp post.
Up the Revolution.

  If only there were more people who think this way then maybe we would live in a better society .

[KillerWatt]

So who has the POwer to just "Sack" these MP's for such things?

If someone did sack them, then start again with new blood they would think twice about doing the same.

Also the disgraced MP's should me made to go on Job Seekers Allowance for at least two years to see how they can survive on that money, using there money (savings) to keep them at the lifestyle they are accustomed too....

Sod that just string the lot of them from the nearest lamp post.
Up the Revolution.

  If only there were more people who think this way then maybe we would live in a better society .

Why do you think the government have been introducing all these new laws and god knows how many CCTV cameras over the last 10 years?

[ians]

Presumably all these capital items - leather armchair, designer furniture bla ,bla are the property of the tax payer as we have paid for them..

If I need a printer at home for my job and I claim it on expenses, it belongs to the company and they will rightly want it back in due course.

So after the next election .... 2nd hand plasma tv anyone?

[crazyjoetavola]

So who has the POwer to just "Sack" these MP's for such things?

If someone did sack them, then start again with new blood they would think twice about doing the same.

Also the disgraced MP's should me made to go on Job Seekers Allowance for at least two years to see how they can survive on that money, using there money (savings) to keep them at the lifestyle they are accustomed too....

Sod that just string the lot of them from the nearest lamp post.
Up the Revolution.

  If only there were more people who think this way then maybe we would live in a better society .

Why do you think the government have been introducing all these new laws and god knows how many CCTV cameras over the last 10 years?

Bad a Bing Killer has it in one