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A new investigation into MP's expenses abuse?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-inquiry-into-tory-conference-gaysex-party-paid-on-expenses-9255489.html Inquiry into Tory conference ‘gay-sex party paid on expenses’    Trust is damaged     Almost on a weekly basis, some allegation or other comes to light of expenses abuse by MP's This week, the allegation, now being investigated is that the taxpayer indirectly funded a hotel suite that was used for a gay-sex party. It seems that an organisation called the Policy Research Unit (PRU), which is overseen by senior Conservative figures, booked a suite of rooms costing up to £2,500 per night at Manchester’s Light ApartHotel, during a Conservative Party conference.It would appear that Conservative MP's pay nearly £4,000 a year to the PRU which they claim back through the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa). This latest "revelation" come in the same week as Culture Secretary Maria Miller, was forced to resign from the go...

The shame of 21st Century Britain.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/03/80000-children-to-spend-c_n_4208853.html?1383550880&utm_hp_ref=uk  More than 80,000 children in the UK will spend this Christmas homeless 21st Century Britain   80,000 children on the streets, one million households using "Pay day loan" sharks, 750,000 people reliant on Foodbanks. All just part of the misery that is Great Britain in the winter of 2013. Add to this the households facing fuel poverty due to the excesses of the energy companies or the households where overcrowding is a major problem due to the failure of governments to address the housing crisis. The neglect of successive governments over many years compounded now by the ConDem coalition with their drive for "austerity", has created this situation and we should all feel shame for allowing it to happen. In the first quarter of the 21st Century, Britain is becoming a nation where self interest and indifference in many parts of society, not ...

This story should cause outrage.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/mps-expenses-rebuilding-politic/10049876/Employment-minister-Mark-Hoban-keeps-most-of-six-figure-profit-on-his-taxpayer-funded-second-home.html This parasite of an MP has made a profit of £132,668 from buying and selling a second home property which had been funded in part through the MPs' expenses system    Mark Hoban.Minister of State for Work and Pensions and MP for Fareham  The  Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which regulates MPs’ expenses, only asked him to repay £11,332of the £144,000 profit he made on the sale of the flat for £393,000 in November last year. Our money going straight into the pocket of an over paid, expense claiming, freeloader.