Is £2,000 too much?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....claimed-expenses.html

Here we go again, back on the latest MP's expenses outrage.

/// £2,700 to redecorate Brown's downstairs toilet ///

I find that rather expensive, he should have used Eastern European decorators, that way he would have got it much cheaper.

But then he always has been a 'man of his word' 'British jobs for British workers'.

All this again only a day after Darling has told us to 'tighten our belts'. When are some of the first lot to be found out, going to court?

[gina32]

and surprise surprise no caps on the money they earn mmm well didnt that shock us all

[Gromit]

Probably never...

//The MPs and peers suspected of fraud and theft are understood to have co-operated with police, providing relevant emails, account details and bank statements. They have not, so far, been formally questioned or arrested and their homes have not been searched.//

[daffy654]

Maybe his downstairs loo is the size of most people's living rooms.

Seriously though,it is an awful lot of money just for redecorating the loo.It only cost me about £150 to do my lounge last year but we didn't get someone else in to do it.

[socket2008]

Do MP's actually buy anything out of their salaries?

What next Gordon Brown?
£310 shopping money for wife for week beginning 07/12/2009 (insert any future weekly date here)
£9.99 new Harry Potter DVD from ASDA
£43.89 Dr Who magazine subscription for nephew
£104.00 electric bill
£250 To ACME Massage Parlour in cash
£10 Children In Need
£12000 Ford Focus for wifes sisters aunties nephews brother's 22nd birthday
50p One poppy paid by cheque returned 'amount too low
£2.50 Bank charge cheque invalid

I may jest, but it's not far off the mark and really shows how the word expenses is a pseudonym for tax free salary top up.

[anotheoldgit]

It will need doing all over again, when the sh*t hits the fan.

[DEN53]

He should have B & Q it......

[rov1200]

The best news I have heard today is that no MP will be able to escape his repayment when he leaves the commons as it will be deducted.

[Booldawg]

Gordon Brown lives in a council house. I wonder if they spend that much on other such dwellings.