£100,000 claimed in year by Gwent MPs (From South Wales Argus)

Jessica Mordem is worth every penny, in Newport, promoting business, cutting crime and showing our Labour Councillors the way forward, bring on another five years.

When you see Jessica fighting for our rights in parliament and for peoples jobs like the steelworkers what has she done wrong.

bert wrote:
Jessica Mordem is worth every penny, in Newport, promoting business, cutting crime and showing our Labour Councillors the way forward, bring on another five years.

When you see Jessica fighting for our rights in parliament and for peoples jobs like the steelworkers what has she done wrong.

Worth every penny?

Life saving hospital equipment and books for school children are worth every penny.

Personal mortgage payments, food, utility bills, council tax, bills, phones, broadband,TV licences, electrical goods, furnishings, bookcases and bedding are not.

Jessica Morden will NEVER receive my vote.

MPs are still leaching scum!! Oddly there is no comparison with previous years where each individual listed appears to have 6 figure annual claims. Funny how they can cut back by 90% when people start looking!!

MPs should be dealt with entirely by central purchasing. Tickets & Hotels and anything else. They should not be allowed to buy or maintain 2nd homes. If its that important, build these blighters flats (like the ones overlooking Victoria Station) and each elected member can be a tennant!! There is a housing shortage which fuels overpricing of houses - I wonder why, when these people are allowed to buy 2 (or more)!!

I still strongly advocate bringing MPs back down to "normal" people's level. How many people in South Wales can justify claiming £10,000 on expenses with their company - llet alone the £23,000 figure!!

MPs are still living in their little bubble of overpaid luxury. There is no "best interests" at heart, other than their own pockets!! Who can say they have best interests at heart when they claim back chocolate bars and cups of tea?!? Sorry, those are luxury items. They should have had the value ones from TESCO if they couldn't afford to take the hit!!

I want to see ALL sitting MPs out at the next election - being honest they should have all resigned but that just shows how arrogant and self-centred they really are, they think that people will accept and prolong their tenure... Cameron, Brown, Milliband 1 & 2, Clegg, Cable, Osborne, Hague the lot!! They have all outstayed their welcome and that is clear when only 22% of people even vote. Its not too lazy to vote, there is no-one worth voting for!!

westsi1983 wrote:
MPs are still leaching scum!! Oddly there is no comparison with previous years where each individual listed appears to have 6 figure annual claims. Funny how they can cut back by 90% when people start looking!!

MPs should be dealt with entirely by central purchasing. Tickets & Hotels and anything else. They should not be allowed to buy or maintain 2nd homes. If its that important, build these blighters flats (like the ones overlooking Victoria Station) and each elected member can be a tennant!! There is a housing shortage which fuels overpricing of houses - I wonder why, when these people are allowed to buy 2 (or more)!!

I still strongly advocate bringing MPs back down to "normal" people's level. How many people in South Wales can justify claiming £10,000 on expenses with their company - llet alone the £23,000 figure!!

MPs are still living in their little bubble of overpaid luxury. There is no "best interests" at heart, other than their own pockets!! Who can say they have best interests at heart when they claim back chocolate bars and cups of tea?!? Sorry, those are luxury items. They should have had the value ones from TESCO if they couldn't afford to take the hit!!

I want to see ALL sitting MPs out at the next election - being honest they should have all resigned but that just shows how arrogant and self-centred they really are, they think that people will accept and prolong their tenure... Cameron, Brown, Milliband 1 & 2, Clegg, Cable, Osborne, Hague the lot!! They have all outstayed their welcome and that is clear when only 22% of people even vote. Its not too lazy to vote, there is no-one worth voting for!!

Hear, hear!

£23,000 is a disgusting amount to claim in "expenses" I doubt many people living and working in Newport East make £23,000 a year in salary!

Jessica Morden doesn't deserve my vote.

bert wrote:
Jessica Mordem is worth every penny, in Newport, promoting business, cutting crime and showing our Labour Councillors the way forward, bring on another five years.

When you see Jessica fighting for our rights in parliament and for peoples jobs like the steelworkers what has she done wrong.

Is this the same Morden who voted with the government when it came to Post Office closures?

She'd better claim what she can whilst she can, as we'll be booting her out next May to get someone who will properly represent us!

Here's a Morden classic - a telephone bill for 97p! I wonder how much it cost the taxpayer to process that claim?

http://mps-expenses2
.guardian.co.uk/page
/19692/

What more is there left to say about the whole Rotten Greedy Gutter Snipes, Liebour, Tories and the Lib Dems, they are all greedy Swines with no idea what it is to work in an ordinary Job, in fact, I doubt if many of them would be employed outside Parlement. Most of these Pigs are just in it for the Money, they couldn't care less about the likes of you and me and we should sweep away the whole lot of them and start afresh because it looks like we haven't got much choice between the three main parties, they are all the same!!
What's more unbelieable Gormless Brown is pledging £1.5 billion of Taxpayers cash to Foriegn Shores in the name of the CRIME OF THE CENTURY GLOBALWARMING SCAM...ask yourselves where is this money supposed to be conjured up from as the Country is Stone Broke thanks to these Snake Oil Lying Thieves!!!!!!!

Tell the workers who lost their jobs durin the recession .......... tell the kids who are hungry ......... I have had dealings with Labour and I was passed to a guy called Tony (not blair) but i felt alone ,,,,,,,,,,,, if she is doing something for us , tell me wot?????? she is jut riding the gravy train , same as rest of 'em

pwharley wrote:

bert wrote: Jessica Mordem is worth every penny, in Newport, promoting business, cutting crime and showing our Labour Councillors the way forward, bring on another five years. When you see Jessica fighting for our rights in parliament and for peoples jobs like the steelworkers what has she done wrong.

Is this the same Morden who voted with the government when it came to Post Office closures? She'd better claim what she can whilst she can, as we'll be booting her out next May to get someone who will properly represent us!

I'm a steelworker!!!!!!!!!
! I feel totally let down by that mp who is supposed to serve me!!!!!! Did she save the Heavy End???????? Has she saved any jobs during this years cut-backs????? NO , AND NO ........ She ain't done anything good for us!!!!!!!!!! All she is good for is photo opportunities.......
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Dropkick Murphy wrote:

pwharley wrote:

bert wrote: Jessica Mordem is worth every penny, in Newport, promoting business, cutting crime and showing our Labour Councillors the way forward, bring on another five years. When you see Jessica fighting for our rights in parliament and for peoples jobs like the steelworkers what has she done wrong.

Is this the same Morden who voted with the government when it came to Post Office closures? She'd better claim what she can whilst she can, as we'll be booting her out next May to get someone who will properly represent us!

I'm a steelworker!!!!!!!!!

! I feel totally let down by that mp who is supposed to serve me!!!!!! Did she save the Heavy End???????? Has she saved any jobs during this years cut-backs????? NO , AND NO ........ She ain't done anything good for us!!!!!!!!!! All she is good for is photo opportunities.......

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Ain't they All Butty..Ain't they All !!!!!

What kind of democracy is it when the labour party decides on the stooge they want us to vote for?
This is the system that puts children into hundred year old schools while at the same time spends 10 million pounds and rising on the un principled opprtunist useless Kinnocks? Check it out on taxpayers alliance?
Paul Flynn, Dai Havard and a couple of Welsh nats are there to get democracy but the other bunch of silent stooges should be removed.
The MP for Bridgend who was pretending she was supporting Mc Kinnon the hacker then voted for him to be extradited to America.
Then she later asked PM Brown would he support the girl guides?
Blair has finally admitted he lied about WMD in Iraq says it all about the lying greedy bastards that are part of the party that has bankrupted and broken Britain.

we would know more about our local mp's work but this paper refuses to give them a page in their paper.
i have asked the argus many times if they would give a page for our politicians to show what they are doing and a chance for us to ask them questions and make them accountable for their actions.
they wont though.
politics affects every part of our lives but the argus thinks we arent interested.
the argus doesnt like paul flynn and only prints articles once in a blue moon about what he does in parliament and newport.
mainly articles that attack him i must add.

we have just over 6 months until the election ,why wont the argus give us some idea of who the candidates are and what they do. so we can be informed of the best candidates to vote for.

when will the argus become an informative paper and not just a rag.
the circulation of the argus is going down year by year because the reporting is poor and the stories are irrelevant to local people.

Davewales
surely your MP and AM hold surgeries ? isnt that the place to confront them on policies that you hold dear? you can then hold them to account face to face instead of anonymously through the Argus website,
Elected representatives are surely held responsible through the ballot box ie if you dont like his/her policies dont vote for them, democracy?.

Are we missing something ? These are only MPs expences - eg; David Davies for Monmouth claimed £23,815.60 as an MP - what were his expences as a Welsh Assembly Member ? What were his claims as a Local Government Councillor ? lets add them all up together and get a true picture of this Theft of TaxPayers Money. Give the people their hard earnt money back !!

We all got to put up with the LIBS - FIBS - THE TORIES STORIES WHEN PLAID LIED

westender
not many of the electorate go to their mp's website or go to their surgeries to question them.
people these days either dont vote which is terrible or vote as their parents did/do.
more people need to know politics does effect every aspect of their lives and their vote does count .

make the candidates explain what their about and make them accountable thats all i'm saying.

i also believe schools should teach the youth about politics and maybe more would get involved.
we need people in politics that live in the real world and will challenge the privaliged who seem to think they have a birth right to run this country.