Friday Fuckwit - thw whole Labour Cabinet
Douglas Alexander: spent more than £30,000 doing up his constituency home – which then suffered damage in a house fire.
Hazel Blears: claims for three different properties in a year
Gordon Brown: house swap let PM claim thousands
Andy Burnham: had an eight-month battle with the fees office after making a single expenses claim for more than £16,500
Alistair Darling: stamp duty paid by public
Caroline Flint: claimed £14,000 for fees for new flat
Geoff Hoon: established a property empire worth £1.7 million after claiming taxpayer-funded expenses for at least two properties.
Lord Mandelson: questions over timing of his house claim
David Miliband: spending challenged by his gardener
Paul Murphy: had a new plumbing system installed at taxpayers’ expense because the water in the old one was “too hot”.
John Prescott: two lavatory seats in two years
Jack Straw: only paid half the amount of council tax that he claimed back on his parliamentary allowances over four years.
Shaun Woodward: millionaire minister received £100,000 to help pay mortgage
They obviously think they should be paid more but know the public would not tolerate them voting to give themselves higher wages so they have "gentlemen's agreements" to fleece the Parliament for every penny they can get! I've represented people in disciplinaries for putting forward the wrong mileage! Who do MPs think they are? Expenses should be there to pay to support a politician to do the work they need to do not to trouser every penny they can retrieve!
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