According to research on average MPS' have claimed just under 93million pounds per Annam. Including travel expenses which are about £144,176, according to the latest data for 2007-2008. Is this disgusting when there is a recession? And is this right when we have child poverty in Britain and homeless people?
MPS' Claiming expenses form tax payers money, second homes which they do not really live in, purchasing pornographic videos etc. Some have argued that MP'S do not get paid as much as they should therefore the expenses simply cover that cost. If MPS' are not being paid enough then why is that. I can only assume because they want to sneak it in without the general public finding out how much they actually get. If we took away their extra expenses and added more money to their actual salary, there would be uproar because of the amount it would work out to. There are so many children living in poverty in Britain today and the NHS as well as Social services are under staffed because of budgets. So why then should MPS' get paid so much ? The answer is that they clearly should not. We are not a nation that look after the poor and vulnerable, we just like to claim that we are!! Derek Conway, the Tory MP who stands accused of abusing the expenses system by over-paying his two sons for research work, has had the party whip withdrawn from him by David Cameron.
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