Are widescreen TV's really a right?
15/05/09 18:22 Filed in: Personal
Perhaps somebody could explain this to me.
But why exactly do members of parliament think that it’s perfectly acceptable to claim the expense (£2100 in one case) for plasma TV’s? If I tried to claim the cost of a 42” plasma against the company I could very well have HM Revenue and Customs asking very pertinent questions, and rightly so.
But for reasons that are totally beyond my understanding, members of parliament appear to think that it’s totally acceptable to claim tax payers money to pay for TV, home cinemas, garden work, swimming pools and so forth.
Hazel Blears stands there on television saying that she is going to pay the Inland Revenue (you can assume she meant HM Revenue and Customs) the equivalent money that would have been paid. But the reality is, without fiddling the expenses system, that would be money that SHOULD have been paid to the HM R&C. So she’s doing nobody any bloody favours! If anything, she is edging her bets in case there is a criminal prosecution.
My biggest problem with all this is that, this is a woman who’s salary is over £100,000 and yet she feels it’s perfectly acceptable to then go on and further claim for luxury items ON TOP of her salary. It is absolutely disgusting and I sincerely hope that this is one Salford MP who’s going to loose more than her electoral seat!
But why exactly do members of parliament think that it’s perfectly acceptable to claim the expense (£2100 in one case) for plasma TV’s? If I tried to claim the cost of a 42” plasma against the company I could very well have HM Revenue and Customs asking very pertinent questions, and rightly so.
But for reasons that are totally beyond my understanding, members of parliament appear to think that it’s totally acceptable to claim tax payers money to pay for TV, home cinemas, garden work, swimming pools and so forth.
Hazel Blears stands there on television saying that she is going to pay the Inland Revenue (you can assume she meant HM Revenue and Customs) the equivalent money that would have been paid. But the reality is, without fiddling the expenses system, that would be money that SHOULD have been paid to the HM R&C. So she’s doing nobody any bloody favours! If anything, she is edging her bets in case there is a criminal prosecution.
My biggest problem with all this is that, this is a woman who’s salary is over £100,000 and yet she feels it’s perfectly acceptable to then go on and further claim for luxury items ON TOP of her salary. It is absolutely disgusting and I sincerely hope that this is one Salford MP who’s going to loose more than her electoral seat!