What do you expect from the self described ‘continuity’ candidate?
I didn’t believe it possible to have a continuity candidate when the predecessor had to resign in disgrace.
Human garbage
£1000 per year
It doesn’t seem ridiculously high
It’s not like was is claiming for a duck house
Why didn’t she just put a jumper on?
Claiming for her second home. She’s just disgusting.
Seems legit, it’s only one months gas bill.
Sharpen your pitch forks.
The point everyone’s missing is that all this talk of her having no plan for the energy crisis is bollocks. All we have to do is claim our energy bills on expenses…simples.
How do MPs claim expanses? Can we flood it with our expense forms in protest?
Does any mp not claim expenses for energy?
why the fuck does an MP who are on 85k+ are claiming expenses? and why are they being GRANTED…
Why are mps claiming expenses in the first place
Out of interest, anyone here know of any other job that lets you claim utilities on expenses?
“……, that is a disgrace.”
Well if she leads from the front she’ll pay like the rest of us!
It says a lot when my first thought was… not as much as I thought she’d have tried to get away with
Morale Hazard – exposing people to something they themselves are not exposed to. It happens on healthcare, education and household costs including energy. That morale hazard where they aren’t impacted by their decisions means they choose things that further separate their world from ours.
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Truss Liz? No I don’t Truss her as far as I can spit.
I mean compared to other MPs who claimed 5k in a year alone on energy
Not condoning it but there’s worse but that’s still shit
That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
Especially when compared to all sorts of different crazy and ridiculous expenses most MPs usually claim for, without any sort of real justification for it beyond just wanting to take taxpayers for mugs.
Very reasonable claim TBH.
£1000 a year is what I pay for energy with one house, she has two (Westminster house and constituency house).
“MPs have claimed £420,000 to heat second homes since 2019.”
They’re focusing on her because she’s running for PM, glossing over the other 404 MPs that also claim expenses for heating
“Labour MP Liam Byrne claimed the most on energy in his second home, charging taxpayers some £7,808 over three years.”
Spawn of Thatcher, mwah ha ha.
That’s…not much. What the hell is with this headline.
General election and general strike needed!
Doesn’t believe in handouts, claims her energy as expenses. Cos that’s not hypocrisy at all right.. /s
Wonder what her total expenses claim was in the last 5 years? Probably a shitload more than 5k.
The point is, that her mp salary is fairly large, the HoC bars and restaurants are subsidised, and she can claim expenses, yet she consistently voted to cut welfare.
Parliament is the real easy street….bastards all of them.
And Starmer claimed even more……in fact every MP claimed the maximum allowances and expenses that they were allowed ………so what’s your point ?
Time to turf them out folks. They’re fucking useless and taking us all for a ride.
How do I claim that? I need 5k now.
We’d all claim our energy costs on expenses if we could, but this just goes to show that the ones we depend on to sort out our current energy crisis are among the few who actually have no skin in this game.
But surely Tory leadership is beginning to realise how utterly catastrophic it will be for them politically if they continue to downplay the magnitude of the issues. On the current trajectory, even average wage earners may have to choose between food and heating in the coming months. Many of our most vulnerable will be completely screwed.
My concern with Truss if she gets into office is that she’ll lean into her Thatcher cosplay thing, not really knowing that such policies will be likely utterly disastrous in the current climate.
I completely understand why MPs should claim *some* expenses back to carry out their duties, as most of us do when we are working away from home. However, I think it’s a completely ridiculous system to allow them to claim for certain things they have up to now.
For example: Claiming for £20,000 for gardening fees, claiming for expensive house renovations, claiming £7000 for furniture, claiming for houses they then flip for a profit whilst not paying capital gains taxes on it. Paying tens of thousands of pounds from expenses for family members rent, I’ve even seen some claiming for toilet roll during the pandemic.
In no way in the world, should people earning salaries of over £81,000+ p/a and be claiming utilities, furniture, grocery items, house renovations etc whilst the numpties like all of us get shafted over and over again. Literally sat laughing in all of our faces and that will never change at this rate.
Second home!?I don’t even have a second day to live at this rate.
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What do you expect from the self described ‘continuity’ candidate?
I didn’t believe it possible to have a continuity candidate when the predecessor had to resign in disgrace.
Human garbage
£1000 per year
It doesn’t seem ridiculously high
It’s not like was is claiming for a duck house
Why didn’t she just put a jumper on?
Claiming for her second home. She’s just disgusting.
Seems legit, it’s only one months gas bill.
Sharpen your pitch forks.
The point everyone’s missing is that all this talk of her having no plan for the energy crisis is bollocks. All we have to do is claim our energy bills on expenses…simples.
How do MPs claim expanses? Can we flood it with our expense forms in protest?
Does any mp not claim expenses for energy?
why the fuck does an MP who are on 85k+ are claiming expenses? and why are they being GRANTED…
Why are mps claiming expenses in the first place
Out of interest, anyone here know of any other job that lets you claim utilities on expenses?
“……, that is a disgrace.”
Well if she leads from the front she’ll pay like the rest of us!
It says a lot when my first thought was… not as much as I thought she’d have tried to get away with
Morale Hazard – exposing people to something they themselves are not exposed to. It happens on healthcare, education and household costs including energy. That morale hazard where they aren’t impacted by their decisions means they choose things that further separate their world from ours.
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Truss Liz? No I don’t Truss her as far as I can spit.
I mean compared to other MPs who claimed 5k in a year alone on energy
Not condoning it but there’s worse but that’s still shit
That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
Especially when compared to all sorts of different crazy and ridiculous expenses most MPs usually claim for, without any sort of real justification for it beyond just wanting to take taxpayers for mugs.
Very reasonable claim TBH.
£1000 a year is what I pay for energy with one house, she has two (Westminster house and constituency house).
“MPs have claimed £420,000 to heat second homes since 2019.”
They’re focusing on her because she’s running for PM, glossing over the other 404 MPs that also claim expenses for heating
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-mps-claimed-420000-on-expenses-for-their-energy-bills/
“Labour MP Liam Byrne claimed the most on energy in his second home, charging taxpayers some £7,808 over three years.”
Spawn of Thatcher, mwah ha ha.
That’s…not much. What the hell is with this headline.
General election and general strike needed!
Doesn’t believe in handouts, claims her energy as expenses. Cos that’s not hypocrisy at all right.. /s
Wonder what her total expenses claim was in the last 5 years? Probably a shitload more than 5k.
The point is, that her mp salary is fairly large, the HoC bars and restaurants are subsidised, and she can claim expenses, yet she consistently voted to cut welfare.
Parliament is the real easy street….bastards all of them.
And Starmer claimed even more……in fact every MP claimed the maximum allowances and expenses that they were allowed ………so what’s your point ?
Time to turf them out folks. They’re fucking useless and taking us all for a ride.
How do I claim that? I need 5k now.
We’d all claim our energy costs on expenses if we could, but this just goes to show that the ones we depend on to sort out our current energy crisis are among the few who actually have no skin in this game.
But surely Tory leadership is beginning to realise how utterly catastrophic it will be for them politically if they continue to downplay the magnitude of the issues. On the current trajectory, even average wage earners may have to choose between food and heating in the coming months. Many of our most vulnerable will be completely screwed.
My concern with Truss if she gets into office is that she’ll lean into her Thatcher cosplay thing, not really knowing that such policies will be likely utterly disastrous in the current climate.
I completely understand why MPs should claim *some* expenses back to carry out their duties, as most of us do when we are working away from home. However, I think it’s a completely ridiculous system to allow them to claim for certain things they have up to now.
For example: Claiming for £20,000 for gardening fees, claiming for expensive house renovations, claiming £7000 for furniture, claiming for houses they then flip for a profit whilst not paying capital gains taxes on it. Paying tens of thousands of pounds from expenses for family members rent, I’ve even seen some claiming for toilet roll during the pandemic.
In no way in the world, should people earning salaries of over £81,000+ p/a and be claiming utilities, furniture, grocery items, house renovations etc whilst the numpties like all of us get shafted over and over again. Literally sat laughing in all of our faces and that will never change at this rate.
Second home!?I don’t even have a second day to live at this rate.