Eventhough their basic salary only £84000 but their expenditure or subsidies are exorbitant. Well I call for a cap on howuch they can claim also are they still put friends and relatives as their assistant and put they on the government payroll????
£20 per week on Unifversal Credit to Sunak is ridiculous but for the commoners these Minister expenditure reimbursement is horrid too. Sunak can stop the £20 we should only vote for Minister pledge to cap what they can claim and the max amount they can claim and the max amount of site income they can make
> But Labour MP Liam Byrne claimed the most on energy in his second home, charging taxpayers some £7,808 over three years.
What’s the bets we’re funding his crypto mining rig with an energy bill that high?
Why they not using their salary like everyone else?
WTF I agree they should be able to expense any costs related to their role e.g. mostly travel. Why are we paying for their bloody home electricity bills?
This is why they don’t give a shit about the consequences of the sanctions or inflation. And why should they? No one will hold them to account.
I’d be curious to see what they do actually pay for out of their own pockets…besides coke and prozzies.
MPs should only get wages and expenses. And when I say expenses, I mean travel to and from work and possibly lunch. No other income should be allowed, and if they do, they shouldn’t be paid as an MP. It’s absolutely outrageous they earn more than the vast majority of people do, employ their significant other on more than the average wage, and still claim vast amounts of money on expenses.
Funnily enough I don’t trust people who aren’t subject to problems like energy costs to actively be trying to fix them.
When French revolution 2, electric boogaloo?
£420,000 over three years is £140,000 per year. There are 650MPs so that’s an average of £215 per year per MP. Is that a big number?
Edit to add the update from /u/TheNewHobbes discounting London based MPs taking the average up to £254 per year.
2nd edit more accurate 577 from /u/Illwish gives an average of £242 per year.
Enough of this second home bullshit, there should be dorms in parliament
Perhaps their second jobs could pay for their second homes?
They should have made the number £420,069 and people would be too busy saying “nice” to critique them.
Taking the piss because there are zero consequences
Maybe they should do away with there second homes and just video call into work.
Or just all go and die somewhere quietly and actually do something good for the country for once…
The Tory Party can absolutely get fucking purely and utterly fucked to smithereens.
Still don’t understand why an MP can have expenses paid at all, let alone on a a second home, while in comparison to a nurse who has to pay to park at work everyday! And that’s after paying for traveling to work.
MPs also get a 10% rise every year without fail, and it’s never questioned. And seriously what the hell do MPs even do?
Our system is backwards!!
Socialism for the rich, a finger in the eye for the rest of us.
and yet the general public are the ‘benefits scroungers’……. Reminds me of that old Family Guy joke, whats the differance between Art and Pornograpghy………. a government grant.
so about what 600 quid each? Sounds about right for a London heating bill.
Wild idea but how about a fucking zoom meeting. Majority likely never actually need to be physically in parliament for alot of the stuff they like to pretend they’re doing. Expenses can be paid for travel and times they do need to stay, like any other job that has that kind of working situation. Then they can stay in their damn constituencies more often than not.
For real though, expenses needs reworking and more limitations applied because this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this piss take. As we are all told, should live within our means so of they can’t afford to heat their large London flat, get a smaller one.
CUNTS
If they’re not paying for things out of their own money how on Earth are they meant to empathise with what the rest of us have to do?
What a bunch of absolute grifters. Seems like it’s across party too. They get a pay rise every year that civil service workers /nhs staff/other public services workers don’t get!! Public sector workers are not even getting a rise above inflation.
That’s before the new hikes.
Theres no cap on energy bills/usage on second homes.
While everyone’s hankering down, they can have the heating on 24/7.
why are taxpayers paying for MP energy bills when they’ve done nothing to help us back?
Legally.
The rule allowing this is the problem. None of you are gonna pay for things you dont have to, either.
Not that £420,000 over all MP’s is really even a drop in the bucket of the wastefulness of our tax money.
So is the story here ‘MPs working away from home refuse to shiver in the cold and work in the dark?’
Averaged out, that’s 646 quid a year each, which seems fine?
These expense accounts are one of the reason MPs don’t understand the effects of price gouging and the cost of living crisis. It does not affect them one little bit. They can spend what they like knowing full well it will all be reimbursed. I don’t totally disagree with expenses but there needs to be limits and more rigidity of what they can be claimed for. It should be job related only and capped.
Second homes – No, they can only claim for one or 2 nights in a cheap end hotel. This also eliminates the expense claim for decorating, domestic fuel etc
Travel – No more first class flights or train journeys. The standard return rail trip will be paid, upgrades out of MPs own pocket.
Food – Canteen style while attending parliament, £20 limit when eating off site, and only when on parliamentary business
Staff – No giving spouses a title but no real job and claiming the salary on expenses
I’m sure there’s a lot more ways to cut back too but can’t think right now
Literally I wish Reddit would actually do some research and history to understand why MP’s get expenses and the salary they do. I hope you guys want some adequate representation of the lower classes when your MP’s from up north have to spend £20k+ on rail travel. I suppose if your rich maybe with a few 1000 acres you can do it and your interests will definitely match the local population 🙄
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Eventhough their basic salary only £84000 but their expenditure or subsidies are exorbitant. Well I call for a cap on howuch they can claim also are they still put friends and relatives as their assistant and put they on the government payroll????
£20 per week on Unifversal Credit to Sunak is ridiculous but for the commoners these Minister expenditure reimbursement is horrid too. Sunak can stop the £20 we should only vote for Minister pledge to cap what they can claim and the max amount they can claim and the max amount of site income they can make
> But Labour MP Liam Byrne claimed the most on energy in his second home, charging taxpayers some £7,808 over three years.
What’s the bets we’re funding his crypto mining rig with an energy bill that high?
Why they not using their salary like everyone else?
WTF I agree they should be able to expense any costs related to their role e.g. mostly travel. Why are we paying for their bloody home electricity bills?
This is why they don’t give a shit about the consequences of the sanctions or inflation. And why should they? No one will hold them to account.
I’d be curious to see what they do actually pay for out of their own pockets…besides coke and prozzies.
MPs should only get wages and expenses. And when I say expenses, I mean travel to and from work and possibly lunch. No other income should be allowed, and if they do, they shouldn’t be paid as an MP. It’s absolutely outrageous they earn more than the vast majority of people do, employ their significant other on more than the average wage, and still claim vast amounts of money on expenses.
Funnily enough I don’t trust people who aren’t subject to problems like energy costs to actively be trying to fix them.
When French revolution 2, electric boogaloo?
£420,000 over three years is £140,000 per year. There are 650MPs so that’s an average of £215 per year per MP. Is that a big number?
Edit to add the update from /u/TheNewHobbes discounting London based MPs taking the average up to £254 per year.
2nd edit more accurate 577 from /u/Illwish gives an average of £242 per year.
Enough of this second home bullshit, there should be dorms in parliament
Perhaps their second jobs could pay for their second homes?
They should have made the number £420,069 and people would be too busy saying “nice” to critique them.
Taking the piss because there are zero consequences
Maybe they should do away with there second homes and just video call into work.
Or just all go and die somewhere quietly and actually do something good for the country for once…
The Tory Party can absolutely get fucking purely and utterly fucked to smithereens.
Still don’t understand why an MP can have expenses paid at all, let alone on a a second home, while in comparison to a nurse who has to pay to park at work everyday! And that’s after paying for traveling to work.
MPs also get a 10% rise every year without fail, and it’s never questioned. And seriously what the hell do MPs even do?
Our system is backwards!!
Socialism for the rich, a finger in the eye for the rest of us.
and yet the general public are the ‘benefits scroungers’……. Reminds me of that old Family Guy joke, whats the differance between Art and Pornograpghy………. a government grant.
so about what 600 quid each? Sounds about right for a London heating bill.
Wild idea but how about a fucking zoom meeting. Majority likely never actually need to be physically in parliament for alot of the stuff they like to pretend they’re doing. Expenses can be paid for travel and times they do need to stay, like any other job that has that kind of working situation. Then they can stay in their damn constituencies more often than not.
For real though, expenses needs reworking and more limitations applied because this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this piss take. As we are all told, should live within our means so of they can’t afford to heat their large London flat, get a smaller one.
CUNTS
If they’re not paying for things out of their own money how on Earth are they meant to empathise with what the rest of us have to do?
What a bunch of absolute grifters. Seems like it’s across party too. They get a pay rise every year that civil service workers /nhs staff/other public services workers don’t get!! Public sector workers are not even getting a rise above inflation.
That’s before the new hikes.
Theres no cap on energy bills/usage on second homes.
While everyone’s hankering down, they can have the heating on 24/7.
https://polyptics.com/have-mps-successfully-protected-themselves-from-rising-cost-of-living/
what?!?!
why are taxpayers paying for MP energy bills when they’ve done nothing to help us back?
Legally.
The rule allowing this is the problem. None of you are gonna pay for things you dont have to, either.
Not that £420,000 over all MP’s is really even a drop in the bucket of the wastefulness of our tax money.
So is the story here ‘MPs working away from home refuse to shiver in the cold and work in the dark?’
Averaged out, that’s 646 quid a year each, which seems fine?
These expense accounts are one of the reason MPs don’t understand the effects of price gouging and the cost of living crisis. It does not affect them one little bit. They can spend what they like knowing full well it will all be reimbursed. I don’t totally disagree with expenses but there needs to be limits and more rigidity of what they can be claimed for. It should be job related only and capped.
Second homes – No, they can only claim for one or 2 nights in a cheap end hotel. This also eliminates the expense claim for decorating, domestic fuel etc
Travel – No more first class flights or train journeys. The standard return rail trip will be paid, upgrades out of MPs own pocket.
Food – Canteen style while attending parliament, £20 limit when eating off site, and only when on parliamentary business
Staff – No giving spouses a title but no real job and claiming the salary on expenses
I’m sure there’s a lot more ways to cut back too but can’t think right now
Literally I wish Reddit would actually do some research and history to understand why MP’s get expenses and the salary they do. I hope you guys want some adequate representation of the lower classes when your MP’s from up north have to spend £20k+ on rail travel. I suppose if your rich maybe with a few 1000 acres you can do it and your interests will definitely match the local population 🙄