That’s the Bill we, the Tax Payer, have paid for Bojo to have a get together with his staff according the Guardian yesterday. And the best part is, it wasn’t even spent in this country. It was spent in New York…
Now that the Labour Government are seemingly trying to do something about something, they have uncovered a disgusting abuse of country’s coffers committed by some of our Members of Parliament.
Nobody is going to convince me that anybody needs £2,500 worth of shoes, courtesy of the tax payer, purchased in Barbados. And I’d love to have seen what the hospitality bill included to run up a bill for nearly £4.5k worth of food and drink.
We are forgetting that the MP’s also receive an actual salary. Can anyone tell me how/why it’s acceptable to cost the Tax Payer £1,200 for coffee pods in 2 months. If you want fancy Coffee Pods; then you pay for fancy Coffee Pods. Don’t expect me to fork out £150 a week for it. You get enough already.
I can’t even believe that a civil servant could have had access to £2.5k worth of hospitality on this credit card (according to the BBC) without having to have it authorised. It’s unclear whether this is for one bill or over the course of a year for example, but from the article I did get the impression that this was the maximum that could be claimed on one bill at any time without question.
£2.5k. Honestly? It is an honourable position but they’re quite frankly taking the piss. MPS work for us and as your employer I don’t agree that £600 a month on coffee pods for one office is exactly a justifiable and reasonable expense.
MPs receive a 90k a year salary (rising to 94k in April 25) excluding claims for second homes and transport etc to enable MPS to carry out their job. All of these things are either subsidised or claimed on expenses paid for by the Tax Payer and yet MPS cannot afford to live comfortably or pay for their fancy coffee pods themselves? Put your hand in your own pocket. Spend a bit of your own cash like the rest of us.
It’s an absolute joke! Penalising the disabled, the small businesses and the pensioners to try and put a few quid back into the coffers that THEY took out of to fund their luxuries is deplorable.
I tell you what Mr Starmer and Government, take a pay cut of at least 50% and scrap this extravagant expenses scheme. Find out what it’s like to live without bank of tax payer and weighing up whether food or heating is most important.
Honestly, I thought the situation with the small boats was bad enough and their hand outs questionable… but I would say this hits hard in a different way. We are now paying for MPS to exploit us. The other ones just exploit us simply because they can because nobody stops it and they owe this country absolutely nothing. But the MPS… well they really should know better. It just shows that they really don’t give a toss about us. The old phrase ‘I’m alright Jack’.. comes to mind.
This country needs a change and quickly.
LornaSpeaks 
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