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Tennis
Spam/OT Thread 2
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It's what most of them do
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ok to expense;
travel to and from work, accommodation etc not ok to expense; fake jobs for your wife |
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Farage doesn't stand out in that
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You heard about Fillon probably. Le Pen too misused funds to employ people for work they never did.
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Schulz has some dubious, albeit legal, stuff like that too. And as I said, most will.
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I dont how understand how they can claim expensives for their house, how does that work
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was their not someone who claimed a 2nd house for their parents or seomthing
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I looked briefly over the expenses scandal list on wikipedia after you mentioned Abbot's taxi costs and there were lots of them who claimed housing repairs or paid decent rents for 2nd homes with their relatives.
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Paul Murphy (Secretary of State for Wales/Labour, Torfaen) – Murphy was the only Welsh MP criticised for "claiming" expenses. Murphy claimed for a new boiler, because the one he had was deemed "unsafe", in which the water was too hot. The Telegraph identified that he had claimed £1,799 in stamp duty, £35 for a lavatory holder, £537 for an oven, £1,674 for a carpet, £605 for a new television set, £449 for a sound system, £1.98 for light bulbs, £6 for vacuum cleaner dust bags, and £6 for a tin opener.[73]
 But only one Welsh  They're good people. |
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Would've gotten meself a much better sound system if I knew someone else paid for it.
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and not put in the light bulb. Fill out 3 pages to get 1.98 back? Screw you!
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Gerald Kaufman submitted a claim for three months’ expenses totalling £14,301.60, which included £8,865 for a Bang & Olufsen Beovision 40-inch LCD television in June 2006. The maximum amount MPs are allowed to claim for TVs is £750 as no luxury item allowed
booooooooooooooooo! |
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£8,865 tho
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Cheryl Gillan (Shadow Welsh Secretary/Conservative, Chesham and Amersham) – claimed on expenses for £4.47 worth of pet food. Gillan confirmed that dog food had been mistakenly included in a claim, and that she would pay the relevant amount back to the Commons.[55]
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Bang & Olufsen ain't cheap
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David Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative, Wells) – allegedly claimed for more than £380 of horse manure for his garden. Heathcoat-Amory responded only to confirm that such claims had indeed been made.[95]
Douglas Hogg/Viscount Hailsham (Conservative, Sleaford and North Hykeham) – allegedly claimed £2,115 to have the moat at his country estate cleaned, as well as claiming for piano tuning and a gardener. these 2 claims are very Tory |
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Thank God Gillan was so cooperative in paying back the money she had no right to claim.
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Sir Peter Viggers (Conservative, Gosport) - said to have claimed £20,000 on gardening expenses and £1,645 for a 5 ft duck house,[107] made as a replica of Skogaholm Manor in Stockholm, Sweden.
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where do u find that stuff
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What is a horse manure?
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It really shouldn't be. No idea if that's actually claimable over here.
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I only know for sure travel is and I think rent.
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its almost theft in my mind
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guy wants his garden done but doesnt want to use his own money, get to feck
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most of these were or should have been paid back
they then tightened up the system AFAIK |
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Apparently MPs here get 4.305 € a months to cover all costs (travel, office, rent for a 2nd home and what have you)
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in addition to their salary
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250 new posts. wtf
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yes, we were laughing about MPs claiming expenses to get horse poo removed.
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wise, me edy and aaron finally agreed on something, its a new dawn
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Aaron, who was that blonde person you posted a picture of earlier?
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Cool, Hamou made German tabloid news.
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The Tennis Podcast @TennisPodcast 20m20 minutes ago
Ps did we mention Victoria Azarenka @vika7 and Mats Wilander @mwilander are also on tonight's @TennisPodcast w/ @Eurosport_UK? We have now. |