MPs to recieve £10,000 pay rise

[-:Undertaker:-]

Just how stupid do they think we are?

Shameless MPs are set to provoke fresh public anger by pocketing a staggering £10,000-a-year pay rise. The salary hike comes as MPs faced a backlash today over their blatant attempt to cover up expenses scams.

After weeks of public fury at leaked details, Commons officials unlocked their files yesterday - with crucial details covered in thick black ink.

It meant MPs who 'flipped' homes to claim on different properties - or charged for services such as moat-cleaning - were spared further embarrassment. Despite growing fury among voters, it has now been revealed that they are to be rewarded for their greed with a £10,000 pay rise.

The head of the body that will now set their pay said they were underpaid by '10 to 15 per cent'. The astonishing rise - up to five times the rate of inflation - comes as millions of workers across Britain face the threat of redundancy, salary freezes and even pay cuts. Commons authorities compounded the growing outrage by slipping out a list of 200 MPs who are paying back almost £500,000 - with no explanation of why.

I really love this comment on the Daily Mail website, really sums it up;

I really do feel sorry for these poor MP's. Perhaps we are all being a little hard on them. It's a difficult job, they deserve sympathy and understanding. I really feel this £10,000 rise is totally justified. I don't mind paying more tax to help them. - Mr Insane, Manchester

Assumsing this is true and for what they did anyway - I'd throw the whole lot of them out, politcians in Iran seem to have more respect than politicians here. It is really amazing how we can tell Iran & other countrys what is right and what is wrong yet our MP's still have their snouts in the trough.

[Tintinnabulate]

I am seriously starting to hate all MPs.

Our MP claimed for a £200 rug, £300 weekly on food, expensive fridges, like £5000 on furniture, bought two TVs the idiot.

I reckon they should be forced to give all the stuff back (or be forced to give everything they claim) to charity when they retire or dont get re-elected. If they break it or dont then they should be forced to pay for it.

[-:Undertaker:-]

They should go to court like any of us would have to if we were found fiddling expenses/being involved with fraud. The Queen should dissolve parliament of her 'honourable' MPs and hold a general election, with MPs found out to be in the wrong being barred from standing again and sent to prison.

Gordon Brown has pledged transparency, yet the House of Commons has just released its version of the expenses and the sheets are blanked out in key detail areas and that means if the Daily Telegraph hadn't published the claims then we would never of known about duckhouses, biscuits and tippex along with ghost mortages.

Meanwhile he has decided to hold a so called inquiry on the Iraq War, which will be done behind closed doors, will blame nobody and parts of it will only be released after the next general election, and the rest we will never see as it will be covered in blank ink. It shows how honourable they are, just like Tony Blairs expenses were 'accidently' shredded, how convienent.

[luce]

in all fairness it is a hard job and i would support this move if they hadn't had this whole expenses thing. but becuase of that i think they loose all right to represent the country let alone pocket a bonus more then some pocket a year.

[Starburst..x]

The MP's are the biggest benefit scrounging, tax dodging cheats out there as shown lately, and they have the cheek to turn around and tell us all not to be late with paying taxes or trying to avoid paying tax etc etc.
They are all scumbags the lot of them. End Of

[Technologic]

MPs get **** pay. They are hard working people and they always have to take ****. That's the reason they use the expenses. Give them better pay, give them a free flat and everything will be sorted.

[Starburst..x]

MPs get **** pay. They are hard working people and they always have to take ****. That's the reason they use the expenses. Give them better pay, give them a free flat and everything will be sorted.

I get **** pay, I am a very hardworking person and I always take **** when I'm at work. Does that give me an excuse to fiddle with my taxes and claim as many expenses as I can?

[Technologic]

Do you run the country? No.

[Starburst..x]

Yeah but it's not like it's a small group of people 'running' the country, there's hundreds of them in parliament and they all manage to screw it up together. They are the most undeserving people to recieve a payrise (if it's true) I can think of plenty of other people that deserve it.

So whether they run the country or not, how does that justify using taxpayers money for their own pleasure?

[Technologic]

There are 646 MPs in the houses of Parliament, around 620 of those are decent, hard working people who want a change. The other 26 are the ones who are always in the news.