MP's expenses and hypocrisy

[Coach]

Tory Foreign Office minister quits over 'intolerable' expenses rules

£89,435 a year as an MP for Mark Simmonds is not enough for him to live on. Not forgetting the £25,000 he claims in expenses for employing his wife and the £50,000 he gets for being an 'advisor ' for Circle Healthcare.

Last year he claimed £173,436.96 in expenses.

He is quitting as an MP because none of this is enough to house his family in London apparently.

All this from a man who voted for a £26,000 a year benefits cap for others and had this to say about it,

Under thirteen years of Labour a something for nothing culture was allowed to develop. Thanks to the Conservative’s Benefit Cap, households are no longer able to claim more in benefits than the average family earns by going out to work. These figures show this Government’s plan to fix the welfare system is working. Sadly the Labour Party voted against the Benefit Cap and opposed all the changes the Government has made to fix the welfare system. Under their plans some families would still be able to get the equivalent of nearly a £70,000 salary in benefits.

Obviously he has invoked the "one rule for us and another for them" clause.

 

[orchard]

Tory Foreign Office minister quits over 'intolerable' expenses rules

£89,435 a year as an MP for Mark Simmonds is not enough for him to live on. Not forgetting the £25,000 he claims in expenses for employing his wife and the £50,000 he gets for being an 'advisor ' for Circle Healthcare.

Last year he claimed £173,436.96 in expenses.

He is quitting as an MP because none of this is enough to house his family in London apparently.

All this from a man who voted for a £26,000 a year benefits cap for others and had this to say about it,

Do you know whether he's contributed anything to our society whilst we've employed him ? Be fair like.

 

[Tubey]

There should be a benefits cap though. Not that it matters as it's a PR stunt as basically nobody even comes close to getting the amount the cap would be anyway.

Hypocrisy from MPs is par for the course. This selection from the Guardian sums them up:

“What you don’t understand, Chris, is that no Tory MP can survive on £33,000 a year,” one of the grander Conservative MPs (and a multimillionaire to boot) remarked to me as we were queuing in the members’ tea room. Much to my embarrassment, he said this within the hearing of the serving women, whose wages were about a third of ours.

 

[Coach]

Do you know whether he's contributed anything to our society whilst we've employed him ? Be fair like.

Here is his record

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11224/mark_simmonds/boston_and_skegness

He seems particularly keen on not giving money to the sick and disabled.

 

[JDL]

Hypocrisy from an MP? Shocked! Remember the smoking ban? The only places exempt were public palaces which just so happens to include the Houses of Parliament and their subsidised bars.

 

[orchard]

Here is his record

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11224/mark_simmonds/boston_and_skegness

He seems particularly keen on not giving money to the sick and disabled.

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• Has spoken in 20 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 61.30% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 4 annotations on this MP’s speeches — average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 84 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Mark Simmonds’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 318 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

 

[Tubey]

Here is his record

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11224/mark_simmonds/boston_and_skegness

He seems particularly keen on not giving money to the sick and disabled.

So he's a Tory then.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Is anyone surprised? Concentrate power in the hands of the few and its rare that any good comes of it.

 

[orchard]

Is anyone surprised? Concentrate power in the hands of the few and its rare that any good comes of it.

Morning Bakunin

 

[Charlie Bigtime]

Come on now, the poor bloke has loads of things which cost money, like getting to work, cars and drivers don't pay themselves you know, big fancy restraunts dont give lunches away. And who pays for their own house these days, not bloody people I'll tell you that.

Give the guy a break.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Morning Bakunin

It's all about peer progressives these days comrade

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2013/02/what-peer-progressives-really-believe.html

It'll never happen like. Machiavelli knew that.

There is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to be a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for enemies all those who are well off under the old order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

 

[tonyhorne]

Self serving, nest feathering hypocrites. Every last one of them.

 

[orchard]

 

[rascal]

He's an absolute cock-weasel.

 

[Bungle]

I would not be sad to see him and a number of his colleagues rounded up and treated to a Final Destination type death.