MPs expenses review

[eFestivals]

The Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority - the body which oversees expenses claims for MPs - is currently holding a 'public consultation' about MPs expenses.

http://www.ipsa-home.org.uk/Consultations_January2011_Annual_Review.html

You can email them your suggestions to: schemeconsultation@parliamentarystandards.org.uk

I suggest that you tell them what YOU think, so that these scumbags are really living up to the phrase "we're all in this together".

[eFestivals]

I've just sent in my suggestions....

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hi,

I have a couple of suggestions for you...

1. cleaners for MP's private homes (both 1st & 2nd homes). It is simply WRONG that MPs should be allowed to claim for cleaners.

There is no person on this planet who is too important or two busy to clean up for themselves.

It's not only MPs who lead busy lives, every working person in this country is working very hard (often working far longer hours than MPs), with most working very hard simply just to be able to get by.

If MPs want someone to clean up behind them then they're welcome to pay for that at their own expense and not yours and mine.

2. the govt has recently changed the rules on Housing Benefit, so that those who - often due to no fault of their own - happen to be long-term unemployed no longer have the full cost of their housing paid for them.

It is grossly unfair that people already struggling to live on benefits don't have these costs covered while MPs are able to work the expenses system for their own personal financial advantage often get their full costs refunded. A method should be implemented that effects MPs in a similar way, with those who don't reduce their housing claims after a period of time being unable to continue to claim the full amount.

If "we're all in this together" as Dave (WebCam) Moron likes to claim then MPs expenses should hammer home that fact via the rules it operates by.

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Did they say if you're guaranteed to get a reply back addressing your concerns? Just had a look can't find anything.

[eFestivals]

Did they say if you're guaranteed to get a reply back addressing your concerns? Just had a look can't find anything.

I got an automated reply to my submission which says....

Thank you for responding to IPSA’s Annual Review of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme: Consultation January 2011. This consultation closes on 11 February 2011 and responses received after this date may not be considered. Once the consultation has closed IPSA will analyse all the responses and revise the expenses scheme, which will be published in time for the new financial year.

The simple fact is that if we, the general public, don't tell them what we feel is fair, then the outcome will be a set of self-serving rules which will have them scamming us little different to how they've been scamming us for decades.

It recently came out that 30 years ago Thatcher was told that all MPs were on the fiddle, and she did nothing about it. We shouldn't have to wait another 30 years before things properly change.

[t8yman]

dont you think you may have undermined your credibility a little by insulting moron, and using "effect" where you should have put "affect"?

not being a nazi, just saying they may view you as a nutter Neil.

I agree with what you suggested though.

[ampersand]

dont you think you may have undermined your credibility a little by insulting moron, and using "effect" where you should have put "affect"?

not being a nazi, just saying they may view you as a nutter Neil.

I agree with what you suggested though.

[dakyras]

Yeah, using insults and semantic errors make everyone look a bit Peter Dowish.

[eFestivals]

dont you think you may have undermined your credibility a little by insulting moron, and using "effect" where you should have put "affect"?

not being a nazi, just saying they may view you as a nutter Neil.

I agree with what you suggested though.

They've asked for opinions. I've given them mine.

I very much doubt they'll take any notice of anyone's suggestions, sensible or otherwise. After all, the chances are that the people who'll make any decisions are within a similar expenses regime, and turkeys don't vote for xmas.

And if it's Dave Moron who makes the ultimate decision, then he won't get it anyway. He'll be thinking that cleaners mysteriously appear and wipe his arse for him, and for everyone else in the world. He doesn't have a clue how ordinary people live, he truly believes himself to be "typical middle class". Yeah, right, the typical middle class person has each inherited £30M before they're 30.

Still, it was good to see that one of the whinging gits get sent down today. Only 649 to go.

[Purple Monkey]

Leave out the insults man, you're doing yourself no favours if your intention is to win an argument.

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2 months later I've finally got a automated response back and I've actually forgotten what I sent to them in the 1st place.