+++ Auditor General Refuses to Sign Off MPs Expenses +++
The £800,000 worth of non-existant receipts between 2009/10 was, unsurprisingly, a bit of an issue. And that was before the £1.8 million claimed by MPs on trial or under investigation by the Police was taken out of consideration…
Developing…
UPDATE: The statement:
“The qualification arises because the House authorities were unable to provide evidence to support payments to MPs of £2.6 million, including £0.8 million that remains unsupported despite a major exercise to obtain evidence retrospectively and £1.8 million where evidence is not available for audit because the MPs are under investigation by the police.In addition, the evidence supporting £11.3 million of costs reimbursed to Members was not sufficient for the C&AG to confirm the expenditure had been incurred for Parliamentary purposes. This is despite the evidence having been obtained in accordance with the rules governing the MPs’ Expenses Scheme.”
So around £1,200 per Member that they cannot support? Who was it that said they had changed…
Call for a full scale fraud investigation !!!!!!!
Thx Billy.
Cameron was defending this corrupt lot yesterday saying the audit regime was too tough on MPs. He needs a wake up call to reality: he was going to clean up politics, stand up for the UK in EU, cut immigrationetc all but a distant memeory now that he is in No10. May elections are looming vote with your feet against Tory and Lib Dem.
“Who was it said that they had changed”
No one on here that’s for sure. The thieving hoons just seem to be gaming the system in a different way.
Cameron is well capable of misunderstanding the public disgust at this behaviour. Everyone I talk to holds politicians in contempt and would like to see more go to jail for fraud and he defends fraud at his peril. This would be a massive mistake Dave.
non-existent
was taken into consideration. *is* taken might be better, but that’s the least of the worries here.
fuckin knit-picker
nit
nit-picker. Please.
It’s a reference to small insects and not women’s work.
I’ll set my wife on you
What’s his name?
Tony, what’s a twat scourer?
Brillo when grilled Diane Abbot.
Women’s work? How very dare you? I’m rather partial to a bit of self-inflicted knitting now and then.
Developing? Throw them all in prison!
Kettle the fuckers until a criminal investigation has been completed and the charges laid.
Water cannon them for thirty minutes prior to interview under caution, one to soften them up for questioning and two, to get the piggy stench off of the grasping fucks.
Why has a full investigation not already been started?
Could it be that the shredders are working overtime again?
Court papers lodged by Sienna Miller contradict paper’s insistence of single ‘rogue’ reporter.
OOPS!
Expense fiddling, hacking, lying – daily activities of the scum political classes.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Surly this involves theft of public funds ? Every MP that has claimed in the last 10 years should be arrested and made to justify thier claims to the Court of public opinion , then if found guilty , Sent to the tower , Its time they took responceabilty for there actions and not hide behind the fuckin rules !!!!!!
Ah, but they made their own Rules. That’s where it all goes tits up.
No the rules where clear , They just spun that line .
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Firstly, who is Surly? Secondly, the Court of Public Opinion doesn’t actually exist it’s just the great unwashed aided and abetted by Journos who aren’t in it for the good of their health but their monthly wedge and the annual bonus. Ban Journalist’s annual bonuses I say, oops, sorry Guido. Oh no that’s ok you’re a blogger unlike Mrs. Dale.
800 K, that accounts for margret moran & that little mincer, kaufman’s book cases, what about the rest of them ?
I was under the impression that they did not have to produce receipts for amounts under £250. They made that Rule and they abided by it. The fact that we (the general public) didn’t complain at the time was neither here nor there.
“The fact that we (the general public) didn’t complain at the time was neither here nor there.”
Ha ha. Since when did the bastards take any notice of what other people think, say or do, unless it affects them personally or materially?
If the place was nuked we wouldn’t notice the difference except for a dip in tourist numbers in the vicinity and more cash in our pocket.
…..And fewer students pissing on Churchill’s statue.
They have paid tax on that piss.
In the same way I have paid tax on my ciggies and thoroughly resent Cameron & Co nannying the packaging.
Is the brown card packaging shite another bit of EU crap we are expected to adopt without barely a whimper?
Screw Cameron and screw the EU.
“The fact that we (the general public) didn’t complain at the time was neither here nor there.”
Ha ha. Since when did the bastards take any notice of what other people think, say or do, unless it affects them personally or materially?
If the place was nuked we wouldn’t notice the difference except for a dip in tourist numbers in the vicinity and more cash in our pocket.
Heard you the first time.
Reply screwed up. Not my fault, didn’t intend to bore you.
No, if it’s worth saying then it’s probably worth saying twice.
Is James Gordon Brown still drawing his MP pay and rations from the Palace of Westminster despite the fact that he’s hardly ever there ??
Did he vote on tution fees ?
Yes he did actually. A guest appearance presumably followed by dinner at the taxpayers’ expense.
If you remember, Gordon’s Big Idea of MP’s being paid by daily attendence allowance was howled down in derision. That’s probably why he’s taking the piss now.
Now ???? He has been taking the piss for last 15 years the C unt !!!!
I’m moving out of my caravan so I’ve put it on the market.
Nick Clegg just tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, mate. My fruit and veg stall is supposed to go there.”
Do something like this
to parliament!
With “our” MPs in it.
I imagine it’s quite difficult to get receipts from Juicy Jenny or Dessie’s Dirty Downloads.
Goes down as fees for relaxation therapy, as per medical advice.
OK. So HMG and Opposition are in the position (like that of the EU) which, under corporate law cannot legally extract any charges or taxes from us.
Christmas has come early.
Can they be charged collectively with theft ?
They should all tidy up straight up after the next student riot – or police it
Today I will be simulating sincere niceness.
Boom! Boom! What a comic!
But his brusque and contemptuous dismissal of RedEd’s “questions” was the real thing, as was the po-faced defeatist resignation of the Shadow front bench. Happy Christmas.
Cameron’s face is developing nicely into something that deserves a good punching in much the same way as Ed’s is.
Niceness? Such a lefty word. Poor Dave is having to reign it in for fear of appearing too Flashman as he wipes the floor with Millitwat.
‘Rein it in’, not “reign’. Think horse riding.
Are we paying for his hairdresser, excellent comb-over today by the way
That’s the spirit, once you’ve mastered fake sincerity, you’ve cracked it.
Fake sincerity did wonders for my bank balance.
I do fake sincerity for free, I’m that loaded!
So we have got Assange banged up in Wandsworth jail for what could be at least two months while bail is denied (isn’t that over 60 days detention without recourse to Habeas Corpus?) for an alleged offence in another Country that he has not even been formally charged with while his supporters are running around trying to raise the (ridiculously large) bail money at their own expense. Meanwhile back at the ranch our treasonous fornicating troughing dogs are free to wander the streets without an electronic tag in sight.
It’s a terrible world we’re living in. It’s at times like this that I turn to Ecclesiastes.
Not to mention those educated at the British tax payers expense, and now plotting to blow us all up to meet their maker.
And a fucking pea dough maker at that!
And a fucking pee~#dough maker at that!
And would someone like to tell me why I’m paying EMA – a Labour scam to keep morons off the unemployment lists until they hit 18. I had to do an after school job to ‘make ends meet’ – tell ‘em all to go to McDonuts and earn their bloody education then (1) they’ll value it (2) won’t have time to be hanging around with extremists learning how to bring about the end of a fascist state, make bombs, bugger off to somethingStan and get nicked by the Yanks (oh, yes that’s me).
A fascist state it should be remembered, created by NuLabour at the behest of their foreign masters.
And not likely to be dismantled by this decrepit lot any time soon. Wonder at their largesse with your money for their spunk-worthy projects such as the EU, international aid to nuked up powers, bailing out bastards left, right and centre etc.
Jesus wept we’re so fucked.
I am waiting for the Giovernment (or Booris) to give me instructions to send the Serious Crime Squad in
Like if a company pillaged its shareholders….
Hang em all !!!!
The Torygraph is citing £14 million as being in question.
If so that is nearly 28 grand per porking member.
I’ll have a porking member with fries.
Porking members? Yes please.
£ 1.8 million unaccounted for because the MPs are under investigation by the Police ? They account for only £ 200,000 or so if my memory is right…
That means far more than just the five or six charged ?
There could be dozens of MPs in Court now…
This calls for REVOLUTION FFS
A country governed by incompetent thieves
And they cannot even fiddle their expenses without getting caught
I’ve been fiddling for years now and gotten away with it.
The press are a bloody lying bunch of bastards too.
There is no such thing a Big Society. It’s everyone for themselves. No politician has the moral right to govern me. I hereby withdraw my consent.
“The new evidence discloses that it was Neville Thurlbeck who signed the formal contract paying Mulcaire £2,019 a week to work exclusively for the News of the World, and that Ian Edmondson subsequently exchanged emails with Mulcaire about extending it. Questioned at Tommy Sheridan’s trial last week, Coulson said that this was “a legitimate contract for legitimate, legal work”.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/15/phone-hacking-sienna-miller-evidence
‘There is no such thing a Big Society.’
You believed there ever was? I have a bridge in central London that I am selling for a very low price. Interested applicants can contact me in complete confidence. Big Society believers are especially welcome.
The worst aspect of this situation for me is that all these fornicating, money-grabbing parasites have no concern about the views of the peasantry – which is probably the politest title they are likely to give us. They believe they’ve moved on
and left us behind as an irrelevance.
O/T. Re pmq’s today. Any lipreaders able to advise what postie Johnson said to wee Dougie Alexander when he leaned across behind Ed Milli at pmq’s today?
He said, “give us a wank with yer lips, pretty boy,” and then drooled.
Pass the knife ?
“This fucker Milibland is a complete chocolate fireguard!”
‘ Can you believe it, I’m Shadow Chancellor ‘ ?
From those responses I can safely assume the answer is “No”.
But the EUSSR accounts have not been approved for 15 years now !
It started in Brussels.
We should have an annual vote on whether to keep paying our subscription to the EU.
Hear bloody hear!
Er it’s actually 16 years. But what the hell, who needs to know where all the loot goes?
We are untouchable.
We lie, cheat, steal, we engage in bribery, blackmail and nepotism, we cover each other’s backs, we plot and scheme against you, we deceive you, we strip you of a say in the running of your own country, of your children’s future, we even deny you your identity and culture and seek to replace you.
And there’s not a thing you can do about it.
Where’s wikileaks when you need it?
I hope it gets publicly released!
ParliLeaks letsavemore of this!!!!
Firstly, if the thieving bastards can’t provide proper receipts which have been authorised, then don’t pay the expense.
Secondly, start charging them with Fraud.
Simples.
After some close inspection of the books it has come to our attention that you are nothing more than a lot duplicitous thieving bastards, in the light of this the consequences of our decision to refuse to sign-off this litany of deceit will be very severe… I will withhold my Biro (see previous EEC legal precedent, oop’s 10 billion gone missing, must have slipped down the back of the sofa).
I had better get an insurance assesor in to look at all the water damage
Who shredded my expenses without my permission – Cherie ?
CAMERON SAYS TO HIS BACK BENCHERS DONT WORRY I WILL CHANGE THE SYSTEM…GIGGLE GIGGLE…..LET HIM TRY.