Snouts in the trough

The First Post reports that:

"...our MPs seem to forget that they already receive more than £60,000 a year for just 34 weeks’ work and enjoy the most generous pension scheme in Britain. An ordinary person would have to put an incredible £50,000 each year into their pension savings to receive the same pension benefits as an MP.

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In the last five years alone, the amount of money our MPs have taken in salaries and expenses has gone up by a satisfying (for them) 64 per cent, from less than £100m in 2001–02 to over £155m in 2006–07, while the number of expense claims submitted by MPs has almost doubled from just over 30,000 a year to close to 60,000. At the same time, the number of staff employed to help our MPs do less and less work has gone up from around 1,800 to over 2,500."

Do read the rest and wonder at the sheer brass necked cheek of the freeloading scum that for the most part inhabit the House of Commons. Must watch V for Vendetta again this weekend....





Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the spot of the First Post article.