... to sell their home to move into residential care. They have said the two allowances will be replaced by 'equivalent' benefits, ... lead independent lives. Miss Begg, Labour MP for Aberdeen South is confined to a wheelchair after being struck ... ; Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley said he would keep the two allowances. He added: 'As ever with Gordon Brown you have to look at the small ...

A quick message to the 646 MP's in the midden often called the House of Commons: Dear scum ... rent boys for the Lib Dem MP's out there. In fact no fucking allowances what so fucking ever, as each an every one of you fucks are ... pay rise each year. In fact had I my way I would have turfed each an every sitting MP out of The House of Commons, as a disgrace to their high office. ...

... to secure the perks but had been powerless to stop the law from passing at its third reading. Under the law, an MP will have a monthly budget of around 25,500 dollars (17,230 euros) encompassing a salary of 8,450 dollars and allowances for up to 30 staff, primarily security. They would receive 80 percent of their MP salary as a pension for 10 years after they ...

Conservative MP, David Curry has now resigned as the chairman of the Parliamentary Standards and Privileges Committee and now faces a formal inquiry into his £ ... Telegraph approached him with the claim that he continued to claim for this second home from Parliamentary Allowances he immediately referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner. In such a position of authority, supposedly policing ...

... for mortgages and employing relatives and will run the new system. Ex-MP Jackie Ballard, auditor Isobel Sharp ... anger at claims made by some MPs under their second homes allowances. It has been charged with overhauling the system following a six-month independent ... expense and on claiming towards mortgage interest payments. Other allowances would be axed or reduced under Sir Christopher's ...

... not a `constituent` of Ann Widdecombe. But I am a taxpayer paying her wages and her allowances and, as such, entitled to the occasional comment. It seems odd to me that MPs seem, by and large, ... have given a misleading signal about her continuing commitment to those who voted her in.Outside her work as an MP, she has developed a career as an author, appeared very often on television and radio in a ...

I see that Julie Kirkbride, the disgraced Tory MP, has said that she would like to reverse her decision to resign at the next election, sparking anger from Conservative activists. Remember our Julie? She was the Conservative MP had extended her mortgage by £50,000 and claimed the interest payments on her taxpayer-funded allowances in order to fund an extension to her constituency home ...

... recently courted controversy by suggesting that MPs' pay should be doubled and their allowances abolished. Sir Patrick has just released the following statement: "I have ... will ensure that his association will not have a shortlist of three imposed on them from CCHQ - as will be the case for any MP announcing they are stepping down after January 1st. I have previously stated my belief that ...

... Gordon Brown and 12 Cabinet colleagues represent seats in the top 200, while just four have a Tory MP. But Labour fought back, saying the research highlighted a widening gulf between the ... working-age adults in receipt of incapacity, lone parent or jobseeker benefit. Other allowances, such as Housing Benefit, are excluded as they are also claimed by the retired. The top constituency is Liverpool ...

... he and his partner qualified, but against which he’d protested in the past, may bring them to an end John Key has said MPs will have to get their heads around new transparency for their allowances. It will be a brave, or stupid, MP who courts public displeasure by using the perk for private pleasure now. It may be that Hide&# ...