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		<title>By: Mozzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mozzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That Patel &quot; JUSTICE &quot; Minister (!!!) - where are his Muslim morals? 

Isn&#039;t our Patel glad that we don&#039;t have Sharia laws inserted into our British laws or his sticky fingers would have been chopped off for stealing from the taxpayers. His wife is a &quot; lawyer &quot; - she should know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That Patel &#8221; JUSTICE &#8221; Minister (!!!) &#8211; where are his Muslim morals? </p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t our Patel glad that we don&#8217;t have Sharia laws inserted into our British laws or his sticky fingers would have been chopped off for stealing from the taxpayers. His wife is a &#8221; lawyer &#8221; &#8211; she should know.</p>
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		<title>By: Bach</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Patel Justice Minister Shahid Malik now blamed that when he became an MP he had not been explained fully about how to do expenses claims correctly!!! Hahahaha !!!! 

How can we trust him as the nation&#039;s &#039;Justice&#039; Minister when he is a dishonest citizen?

Crooked politicians must be jailed and have their DNA on the police DATA for 12 years and have a criminal record just like what the police do to a shoplifter. And this is Jacqui Smith&#039;s rule for shoplifters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patel Justice Minister Shahid Malik now blamed that when he became an MP he had not been explained fully about how to do expenses claims correctly!!! Hahahaha !!!! </p>
<p>How can we trust him as the nation&#8217;s &#8216;Justice&#8217; Minister when he is a dishonest citizen?</p>
<p>Crooked politicians must be jailed and have their DNA on the police DATA for 12 years and have a criminal record just like what the police do to a shoplifter. And this is Jacqui Smith&#8217;s rule for shoplifters.</p>
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		<title>By: angela</title>
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		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 20:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On the bright side, reading the press today, some MPs are so honest it brings tears to the eyes.  Ann widdecombe.  Theresa May. (Tories). Hillary Benn. Martin Salter, Geoffrey Robinson,Kelvin Hopkins, (Labour), Philip Dunne (Con), who refuses to claim for a second home because &quot;It isn&#039;t right&quot;, and the shining example of Phillip Hollobone (Tory), who spent the least, takes the train for a round 400 mile trip to London, won&#039;t even go first class, charged £100 for staff for the year and doesn&#039;t employ a PA, saying well it&#039;s public money.  Kelvin Hopkins has a constituency next to Margaret Moran.  what a contrast.

There are at the moment 92 dodgy claims.  OK that is a lot, but there are about 646 MPs.  Very many MPs are hard working responsible people, and it&#039;s easy to let the outstandingly crooked cases ruin the whole picture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the bright side, reading the press today, some MPs are so honest it brings tears to the eyes.  Ann widdecombe.  Theresa May. (Tories). Hillary Benn. Martin Salter, Geoffrey Robinson,Kelvin Hopkins, (Labour), Philip Dunne (Con), who refuses to claim for a second home because &#8220;It isn&#8217;t right&#8221;, and the shining example of Phillip Hollobone (Tory), who spent the least, takes the train for a round 400 mile trip to London, won&#8217;t even go first class, charged £100 for staff for the year and doesn&#8217;t employ a PA, saying well it&#8217;s public money.  Kelvin Hopkins has a constituency next to Margaret Moran.  what a contrast.</p>
<p>There are at the moment 92 dodgy claims.  OK that is a lot, but there are about 646 MPs.  Very many MPs are hard working responsible people, and it&#8217;s easy to let the outstandingly crooked cases ruin the whole picture.</p>
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		<title>By: dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 16:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wish we had Howard Stern over here.  In the present political climate, he would be absolute magic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wish we had Howard Stern over here.  In the present political climate, he would be absolute magic.</p>
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		<title>By: angela</title>
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		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 19:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bach, like you, I was truly disgusted at what Stephen Fry said.  To hear him say &quot;fiddling&quot; does not matter and everyone does it was appalling.  It is not the same as journalists fiddling their expenses, it is no excuse to slag off journalists, because there is a huge difference.  MPs are taking public money, journalists are not.

Anyway, in his excellent article on this website, &quot;MPs&#039; expenses,&quot; Boris Johnson deals with this very point.  He explains that (a) journalists are sacked on the spot if they are found to have fiddled their expenses and (b) fiddling public money is a totally different matter.

Why the hell the BBC thought fit to ask Stephen Fry his opinion beats me, National Treasure be damned, huge pain in the neck if you ask me, with an over-inflated idea of his own importance.

What Fry is advocating is actually corruption.  It is corrupt to say that it doesn&#039;t matter if MPs &quot;fiddle&quot; and then he had the brass neck to dismiss the concerns of the public as &quot;bourgeois&quot;. Just because he has no standards or principle, does not mean we do not.  It does not mean we have to listen to his claptrap when everyone is very worried about the state of our parliamentary system.

I was equally shocked to read on twitter that David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of this country, considers the whole issue of MPs&#039; expenses to be &quot;unimportant&quot;.  His sneering tone when discussing the SKY press conference given by David Cameron had to be read to be believed. All he did was make fun of Cameron (who was showing concern and leadership)  in the most juvenile way, seeming not to have a clue how very disturbing it is to find we cannot trust many of the people in charge of our government because many of them are total hypocrites.

These so called clever people are merely demonstrating how completely out of touch they are, and I hope with all my heart that David Miliband is never PM of this country.  Luckily there seems little chance of that.  Boris Johnson and David Cameron do realised how crucial this issue is, how important it is for Parliament and politicians to be respected by the voters, and how this respect for the moment has been dangerously eroded by the greed of certain MPs. They do understand about ideals, honour and principle and do not find these things laughable.

What respect I formerly had for David Miliband is totally gone, and as for Stephen Fry, let him stick to his luvvie concerns and his ridiculous,superficial friends and leave politics to people who understand what is important.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bach, like you, I was truly disgusted at what Stephen Fry said.  To hear him say &#8220;fiddling&#8221; does not matter and everyone does it was appalling.  It is not the same as journalists fiddling their expenses, it is no excuse to slag off journalists, because there is a huge difference.  MPs are taking public money, journalists are not.</p>
<p>Anyway, in his excellent article on this website, &#8220;MPs&#8217; expenses,&#8221; Boris Johnson deals with this very point.  He explains that (a) journalists are sacked on the spot if they are found to have fiddled their expenses and (b) fiddling public money is a totally different matter.</p>
<p>Why the hell the BBC thought fit to ask Stephen Fry his opinion beats me, National Treasure be damned, huge pain in the neck if you ask me, with an over-inflated idea of his own importance.</p>
<p>What Fry is advocating is actually corruption.  It is corrupt to say that it doesn&#8217;t matter if MPs &#8220;fiddle&#8221; and then he had the brass neck to dismiss the concerns of the public as &#8220;bourgeois&#8221;. Just because he has no standards or principle, does not mean we do not.  It does not mean we have to listen to his claptrap when everyone is very worried about the state of our parliamentary system.</p>
<p>I was equally shocked to read on twitter that David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of this country, considers the whole issue of MPs&#8217; expenses to be &#8220;unimportant&#8221;.  His sneering tone when discussing the SKY press conference given by David Cameron had to be read to be believed. All he did was make fun of Cameron (who was showing concern and leadership)  in the most juvenile way, seeming not to have a clue how very disturbing it is to find we cannot trust many of the people in charge of our government because many of them are total hypocrites.</p>
<p>These so called clever people are merely demonstrating how completely out of touch they are, and I hope with all my heart that David Miliband is never PM of this country.  Luckily there seems little chance of that.  Boris Johnson and David Cameron do realised how crucial this issue is, how important it is for Parliament and politicians to be respected by the voters, and how this respect for the moment has been dangerously eroded by the greed of certain MPs. They do understand about ideals, honour and principle and do not find these things laughable.</p>
<p>What respect I formerly had for David Miliband is totally gone, and as for Stephen Fry, let him stick to his luvvie concerns and his ridiculous,superficial friends and leave politics to people who understand what is important.</p>
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		<title>By: Bach</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Daily Mail and the Taxpayers Alliance are taking the cheating MPs to court as the public fear that this expenses scandal might be whitewashed again by the government. Last night London City Mayor Mr Boris Johnson said on Sky News that there was a case for the police to be called in. Read more in: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181868/Bring-justice-The-Mail-helps-launch-campaign-prosecute-sleaze-MPs.html

We don&#039;t care who these sleaze MPs are, they need rooting out. Even Boris Johnson can&#039;t stand them. You want to be a politician because you want to help your country or is it because you want to steal taxpayers&#039; money?

*** Stephen Fry is a dishonest person. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1181909/TOM-UTLEY-The-old-lady-got-wifes-bus-pass-honesty-little-finger-crooked-MPs.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Daily Mail and the Taxpayers Alliance are taking the cheating MPs to court as the public fear that this expenses scandal might be whitewashed again by the government. Last night London City Mayor Mr Boris Johnson said on Sky News that there was a case for the police to be called in. Read more in: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181868/Bring-justice-The-Mail-helps-launch-campaign-prosecute-sleaze-MPs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181868/Bring-justice-The-Mail-helps-launch-campaign-prosecute-sleaze-MPs.html</a></p>
<p>We don&#8217;t care who these sleaze MPs are, they need rooting out. Even Boris Johnson can&#8217;t stand them. You want to be a politician because you want to help your country or is it because you want to steal taxpayers&#8217; money?</p>
<p>*** Stephen Fry is a dishonest person. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1181909/TOM-UTLEY-The-old-lady-got-wifes-bus-pass-honesty-little-finger-crooked-MPs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1181909/TOM-UTLEY-The-old-lady-got-wifes-bus-pass-honesty-little-finger-crooked-MPs.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Karin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Karin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>During the 90&#039;s, I resigned from a local district council because of a criminal act my ex-husband committed. No one in The Party asked me and it caused a local by-election. However, I felt so ashamed of the fraud he carried out and the future political consequences for myself and our Party, that I thought it was for the best. It ended any future political ambition I had in it&#039;s tracks.

Looking at recent expenses revelations across all the main parties, I now wonder if I did right to push the political self-destruct button so quickly. My local MP at the time, had taken me under his wing. His tutoring, certainly did not include &#039;robbing&#039; the public purse via abuse of The Green Book. I&#039;m absolutely disgusted at what has occurred!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the 90&#8242;s, I resigned from a local district council because of a criminal act my ex-husband committed. No one in The Party asked me and it caused a local by-election. However, I felt so ashamed of the fraud he carried out and the future political consequences for myself and our Party, that I thought it was for the best. It ended any future political ambition I had in it&#8217;s tracks.</p>
<p>Looking at recent expenses revelations across all the main parties, I now wonder if I did right to push the political self-destruct button so quickly. My local MP at the time, had taken me under his wing. His tutoring, certainly did not include &#8216;robbing&#8217; the public purse via abuse of The Green Book. I&#8217;m absolutely disgusted at what has occurred!</p>
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		<title>By: angela</title>
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		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://dungeekin.blogspot.com/2009/05/claim-it.html

Really great poem by Dungeekin, to the tune of michael Jackson&#039;s Beat It!!</description>
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<p>Really great poem by Dungeekin, to the tune of michael Jackson&#8217;s Beat It!!</p>
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		<title>By: Bach</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gay Gordon has been claiming £6,000 a year to pay for a house cleaner whom he claimed he shares with his brother, blah blah blah... Yeah, whatever! 

BUT any adult knows that the simple way to do it is: Just find his own house cleaner to clean his own house only, pay her by cheque and show the bank statements to the House of Commons whenever he claims the expense back. Easy.

Why taking the trouble taking the taxpayers through the maze in order to fool them?  Sharing a cleaner with his brother? Nobody knows for sure if his brother chips in to pay for his own share of this house cleaner or not. So far, Gordon Brown&#039;s brother has failed to show any bank statements or proofs to show that he has been paying his share in order to clear Gay Gordon.  

I watched Questions Time last night where lots of people in the audience were vowing to vote BNP - not only to teach all MPs a lesson but also because they no longer trust them. The MPs sitting on the panel were pleading with the public not to vote BNP as &#039; it&#039;s a bad party of bad people &#039;. Well, after reading  all reports on those MPs&#039; expenses claims fiddling, the public are not sure who are really the good  guys and who are really the bad guys. And who can blame them?

Lots of MPs register their relative&#039;s or even a wooden shed as their main home, then claim second home allowance ( £24,000 a year ) on their real house( or bought a rundown house ) and use the allowances to do up their real house ( or the rundown house ) then sell it. And then buy another rundown house and use the allowances to do it up again, then sell it. And start again. Geoff Hoon has done this 4 times! 

MPs also receive an annual cost-of-running-second-home allowance ( £26,000 a year ) to pay for their furniture, FOOD, council tax, utility bills, entertainment, blah blah blah... Some MPs bought 4 extra large sized, flat wide screen TVs in 4 years. Meaning they bought 1 TV each year! 

I&#039;m glad Cameron is clean. But he must use this opportunity to show the public he is a leader not only to the House of Commons but also to his own party&#039;s  MPs. 

The public are saying Gordon has been scurrying around like a headless chicken.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gay Gordon has been claiming £6,000 a year to pay for a house cleaner whom he claimed he shares with his brother, blah blah blah&#8230; Yeah, whatever! </p>
<p>BUT any adult knows that the simple way to do it is: Just find his own house cleaner to clean his own house only, pay her by cheque and show the bank statements to the House of Commons whenever he claims the expense back. Easy.</p>
<p>Why taking the trouble taking the taxpayers through the maze in order to fool them?  Sharing a cleaner with his brother? Nobody knows for sure if his brother chips in to pay for his own share of this house cleaner or not. So far, Gordon Brown&#8217;s brother has failed to show any bank statements or proofs to show that he has been paying his share in order to clear Gay Gordon.  </p>
<p>I watched Questions Time last night where lots of people in the audience were vowing to vote BNP &#8211; not only to teach all MPs a lesson but also because they no longer trust them. The MPs sitting on the panel were pleading with the public not to vote BNP as &#8216; it&#8217;s a bad party of bad people &#8216;. Well, after reading  all reports on those MPs&#8217; expenses claims fiddling, the public are not sure who are really the good  guys and who are really the bad guys. And who can blame them?</p>
<p>Lots of MPs register their relative&#8217;s or even a wooden shed as their main home, then claim second home allowance ( £24,000 a year ) on their real house( or bought a rundown house ) and use the allowances to do up their real house ( or the rundown house ) then sell it. And then buy another rundown house and use the allowances to do it up again, then sell it. And start again. Geoff Hoon has done this 4 times! </p>
<p>MPs also receive an annual cost-of-running-second-home allowance ( £26,000 a year ) to pay for their furniture, FOOD, council tax, utility bills, entertainment, blah blah blah&#8230; Some MPs bought 4 extra large sized, flat wide screen TVs in 4 years. Meaning they bought 1 TV each year! </p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad Cameron is clean. But he must use this opportunity to show the public he is a leader not only to the House of Commons but also to his own party&#8217;s  MPs. </p>
<p>The public are saying Gordon has been scurrying around like a headless chicken.</p>
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		<title>By: angela</title>
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		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ps.  I don&#039;t want No. 10 Downing Street to be Gordon&#039;s first, second or third home!  Joke!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ps.  I don&#8217;t want No. 10 Downing Street to be Gordon&#8217;s first, second or third home!  Joke!</p>
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