MPs are allowed to claim expenses of up to £10,000 for a new kitchen, £2,000 for furniture and £750 for a TV or stereo for their second homes.
Other claims allowable include £6,335 for a new bathroom, £299.99 for air conditioning units, £300 per rug, £50 for a shredder and £1,000 for a bed.
The figures are in the so-called “John Lewis list” used by Commons officials to list maximum amounts for items.
Most MPs can claim items from the list up to a maximum of £23,000 a year.
What’s your view? Post your comments below.
17 Comments
Perhaps King Arthur and Cromwell both need to come back and sort out the state of the nation, and in particular our ruling elite !!!!
aaaahhhhhhhhh so that’s where our taxes go! Facists!
And why not? They are, as Ian has pointed out, the ruling elite. We’re just scum, we’re the dog poo on the shoe of the establishment. We don’t matter. Pah!
Great that is here is me as one example cant even afford to get my kitchen done and my cooker bust i never been so poor as paying all these council taxes and extra for bills leaves me with nothing
Hope they have a good nights sleep in that new bed they have no consience or thought for anyone only thereselves.
the bafoons in the cattle shed should be deselected the only difference between them and mugabe they dont kill the general public on the streets but are as money corrupt as him
Hang on a minute it may be abit much but they do have to stay in London away from there families for most of the week! Think about that before you automatically rant at them.
As stated a few months ago more and more will be revealed, now you know why Brown and the jock mafia want their own to investigate themselves.
We have been trying to expose this corruption for 14 years, ten years agressively, now its affecting everyone suddenly the corruption is being exposed.
Is it me that is stupid as i can’t for the life of me see how i am suppossed to be better off under this lot. I’m told the economy is the strongest going, we have massive reserves, we have no worries yet twice a year i see taxes rising out of all proportion so how come our economy is suppossed to be so strong.
Amazing when politicians are being exposed you either can’t find them or they go sick:))
Wake up now.
Get snouts out the trough party
laura 6 some also have misstresses to keep down there
My taxes this month were over £700, this will provide a TV for an impoverished MP…
Next month I should be able to furnish Rob Marris with %70 of a bed…
Hopefully by the end of the tax year I will have kitted out a reasonable front room for one of these poor, poor dears.
I’m doing my bit for parliament. Are you doing yours?
Hey Laura 6
They choose to work in big smoke and earn big money bet that get tax relief too
some of us cant afford 1 house way it going we all be living in cardboard boxes
at least pay no council tax thats another joke
I see the latest news is now stating that MPs have no idea they are entitled to this John Lewis subsidy, yeah and pigs fly over Cannock in formation every day.
Laura i worked abroad shipping goods for many years my allowance was £11-00 per night that was for food and everything else i slept in a cab, i made a choice so did they they should pay out of their own deep pockets you will find shortly even further revelations of perks by these corrupt lot. :))
Get snouts out the trough party
madness total madness and they wonder why we don’t trust any of them there all at it,easy money our money this should be stopped asap,and give them an extra 50,000 on there wages instead,then we’ll know were our hard earned taxses are going.
what the hell has them staying away from there families got to do with it????
this is just another example of our country going to pot.
This country is a pathetic joke now. Everyone will moan about this, just like they moan about our poor criminal justice system. But moan is all people ever do. And moaning won’t change one damn thing.
Until people are prepared to take to the streets to make their feeling known, this country will continue to deteriorate. With MPs claiming luxury lifestyles from our hard earned taxes, criminals with more rights than their victims and mass immigration.
So you may all sit there, tapping away on your keyboards, venting your frustrations. But it won’t change one damn thing!
laura 6- what has them being away from there families got to do with the prioce of fish.
just another reason why this country is going to pot
Can’t wait for the published expenses lists. That’s going to be a laugh.
I really don’t understand why an MP can claim £10000 for a new kitchen, on expenses. Who the hell came up with this joyride?
Lets be honest, do the majority of MPs really give a rats arse about this country or just themselves?
laura 6. it is terible rip off . most of us have to work away we dont get all that expense . and most of them only go to get away from there wife and husbands anyway. they get paid enough without kitchens and hifi etc .