"ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY TRAIN" ( 2nd AMENDMENT)

Amended again because another so called MP/MEP, "comes out of the woodwork."


MPS & MEPS - "ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY TRAIN!"
03.06.08, 9:25pm

Labour MPs and (MEPs) are a disgrace, they "self police" and therefore operate as a law unto themselves, I find it hard to believe that MPs have the right ("or have given themselves the right!") to set their own wage level & expense budget without some form of "external" audit, or at least a performance related pay scheme to gauge an MPs effectiveness, I think lack of principles and sleaze runs deep in todays politicians, exorbitant expense claims, MPs employing non existent offspring to name a few are all testament to the real "core values of todays MPs who no longer view the role of a British MP/MEP as an honour and a way to serve the Great British public but instead see it as a way to obtain privillages and ride the "Gravy train". Time and again MPs have been proven to be less than trustworthy which in any other profession would call for a competency criteria review and greater monitoring of these so called "principled leaders of democracy" and not by themselves or by any other linked "in their pocket bodies" but a real unbiased external auditor.

How can the goverment justify spending over £100,000+ of tax payers money in an attempt to keep their expenses secret?, ("The Masons are more transparent than an MPs/MEPs allowances"),
who in this day and age is given an open cheque book to the tune of 23,000+ p/a to go shopping with no receipts required? and all this underwritten by the tax payer. This type of self-regulation by MPs stinks of "nod's, winks and shady behind the scenes deals between themselves, a perfect example of self-aggrandizement.

(Q) How often do MPs attend Parliment?, lets say once or twice a week at most, why don't they stay in a Hotel?, (Ps....Ritz, Hilton or any other luxury hotel most definately excluded). Why not follow standard business practice?, if i work away i stay in a hotel, there is absolutely no plausable reason for British MPs to have expensive tax payer funded second homes, all around hard working UK citizens are losing their homes it's just another case of double standards, the Labour Party motto should be "LET THEM EAT CAKE!"

• Posted by: Chris_Hickman
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Named & Shamed

(1st Amendment - MEP Giles Chichester made on 05.06.08)

BRUSSELS (AFP) - MEP Giles Chichester on Thursday stood down as head of British conservatives at the European Parliament after admitting breaking assembly rules on expenses.
Chichester, an MEP since 1994, has been using a firm founded by his father, late round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester, to channel staff allowances. (£450,000+).

"A man put in place to make more MEPs expenses more transparent - I rest my case."
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(2nd Amendment - Den Dover MEP 06.06.08)

Den Dover MEP, over the last 9 years this MEP has paid over £750,000 to his familly?, his wife and his daughter to be precise (i.e) The familly business for secreterial services, that is £41.500 per secretary p/a, for the last 9 years.

(Q) Which came first the secretarial business or the MEP job?, was one created around the other?. The worst thing about this is that "Den Dover MEP" claims he has done nothing wrong? and technically he hasn't, what he and his "ilk" have done is abuse and manipulate a poorly regulated expenses system, for his own gains. Why because he new he could get away with it, and why hasn't something been done about it over the years? why hasn't it been addressed? The expense claim system is left "intentionally"
open to abuse by the people who profit from it, MPs & MEPs are well aware of the loop holes and weaknesses when it comes to claiming expenses, this is seen as a "perk" and is part of "their culture," turning a "blind eye" to any indiscretions because they are "all queuing at the trough."

MPs & MEPs = "immoral".
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