Snouts in the trough

So, MP's have rejected changes to their 'expenses and allowances' for second homes in London, the so called John Lewis List. Hands up who's surprised?

Daily Mirror

They can claim up to £23.500 A YEAR for items such as fridges, TV's, food, building a conservatory etc, as well as payments for mortgages, etc etc etc the list goes on.

Bottom line - they now earn, or take, anything between £60,000 and £170,000 a year of taxpayers money - for consistently hashing things up.

No one's asked the question of what happens to all this stuff when they retire, or get voted out. Who gets to keep the proceeds of the house, sale of TV, fridges and so on? Fair enough there is an element of they have to live in London in order to do there work, but they are supposed to be 'public servants', and surely the idea should not be to profiteer from the work that they supposedly do for us - perhaps I'm being naive.

There were 144 MPs who voted to accept the crackdown. Good on them. There were 172 who voted against it - shame on them

Perhaps we should be screaming out for our load of elected, chosen by the people, politicians, to give back to the people what they take when they are done working for us. Sell their houses, and give the proceeds, and the profits back into the coffers. Donate the stuff (TVs etc) to charity.

Going to happen? Oink oink.