£10,000 extra for MPs because of Covid-19

The current government are a bunch of VVankers. The essentially don't give a fu(k about you or I, only lining their own pockets. The crap they are spouting abou the frontline heroes p!ssess me off too. 6 months ago they didn't give a fu(k about them and 6 months from now they won't. Self serving b***ds the lot of them.
 
Laughing said:
The current government are a bunch of VVankers. The essentially don't give a fu(k about you or I, only lining their own pockets. The crap they are spouting abou the frontline heroes p!ssess me off too. 6 months ago they didn't give a fu(k about them and 6 months from now they won't. Self serving b***ds the lot of them.
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Lets see how many MP's turns it down, from any party. Again you're showing your naivety by thinking MP's from one party are different to that from another. The expenses scandal should have shown you that!
 
Armed Forces staff at our place are unable to work from home because there are not enough laptops to go to around.
MOD civilian contractors have been urged to work from home, and oddly enough they've all somehow managed to get MODNET laptops to enable them to do so.

TX day can't come quick enough for me.
 
A frankly crap piece of reporting and the headline stinks

MP's are not being "given" £10k. Its an additional sum on top of the normal (accountable) admin expenses and will continue to be accountable e.g. need receipts to support those MP staff costs for wfh that were not set up for it e.g vpn licences etc.

Most MP's believe it wont be needed as these additional costs are already been made against existing limits and wont need to dip into it. Some will and as they will be identifiable as they will be accountable we will in due course be able to point the finger if any do take the ****.
 
Wtf, what is everyone going to do with the pitchforks they've just bought? Why did you have to introduce facts and truth into an otherwise standard political moan.
 
Decent_Left said:
A frankly crap piece of reporting and the headline stinks

MP's are not being "given" £10k. Its an additional sum on top of the normal (accountable) admin expenses and will continue to be accountable e.g. need receipts to support those MP staff costs for wfh that were not set up for it e.g vpn licences etc.

Most MP's believe it wont be needed as these additional costs are already been made against existing limits and wont need to dip into it. Some will and as they will be identifiable as they will be accountable we will in due course be able to point the finger if any do take the ****.
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The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), the expenses regulator, also relaxed rules on the evidence MPs must provide and suspended the 90-day window for claims.
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Correct Bear - Now I dare the MP that relaxes the supporting evidence when the total sum claimed will still be published with the total sum of receipts available who has any gap that would be pounced on by the press or nosy buggers like me.

The 90 days limit seems fair if you have to co-ordinate in a lockdown two offices with 3 or 4 people from within each office all working remotely. tbh I've never worked anywhere where anything shorter than last 12 months was the limit.
 
I'd be interested in who claims extra heating bills through this additional allowance.
 
Yup - and if any of them try for extra electric costs as well especially as Martin Lewis has told everyone how to claim the extra working from home allowance we can all legitimately claim
 
Decent_Left said:
Correct Bear - Now I dare the MP that relaxes the supporting evidence when the total sum claimed will still be published with the total sum of receipts available who has any gap that would be pounced on by the press or nosy buggers like me.

The 90 days limit seems fair if you have to co-ordinate in a lockdown two offices with 3 or 4 people from within each office all working remotely. tbh I've never worked anywhere where anything shorter than last 12 months was the limit.
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No MP has 8 essential staff that they are responsible for and their constituency offices are the domain of the central party, every MP receives hardware and an allowance of 130k for office supplies etc for the term of their representation, they claim masses of other expenses on top of this, you know that some MP’s are going to buy additional equipment because it’s available rather than needed.

Other public organisations have had to implement more changes to support remote working and have had to do so from there own budget and take the hit, as exampled by the school situation involving my Mrs, are councils been given additional expenses to work remotely and devolved powers to purchase without approvals, at the end of the day however you want to dress it up MP’s have had an already very generous expenses allowance extended by 40% for a situation that is likely to last a few weeks and other organisations have not, it’s not necessary and doesn’t present a notion that we are all suffering hardship together. When other people are working from home on reduced money and having to make do the best they can then this isn’t good or in all honesty necessary PR.
 
Constituency offices are domain of central party - No they are not.

The constituency allowance for AOE comes to just over £24k p.a. Now if the constituency staff have not taken home the laptop or the official paper to print on, or in fact even the printer itself & are following the guidelines strictly what are they supposed to do? Break the guidelines and make unnecessary journeys?Constituent needs will have gone through the roof by now & if the staff dont have access to locked down in constituency office equipment I suppose you are just expecting them to be ignored no?
 
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