blacksta:

I_LAUGH

why you dey talk this?.  In your deepest of  your heart do you think it o.k for so called leader to use state money to purchase such vehicles when the average man leaves below a $1  day.  Forget comparing America to Nigeria. two competely different scenarios.  If a man is duly elected by the people why does he need 4 bullet proof vehicles.  A typical politcanl in England uses public transport without unecessary wastage of tax payers money

Na true - yet in the same England, public officers husband uses tax payers money to pay for porn movies watched by the husband while she is away at work - no be the same england?

Nigerians and their bags of PATHETIC excuses for mediocrity!!! 

public officers husband uses tax payers money to pay for porn movies watched by the husband while she is away at work - no be the same england?

the expences that was claimed in connection with the public official involved was not illegal . she did nothing wrong and moreover what is the correlation between claiming legally entitled expenses to buying four bullets proof vehicle as if one is not enough.?

Ode Remo

Why do you run from facts when it is not Nigeria? Even the public officer concerned offered apology for wrong doing. Youasked what the corellation is? then kindly read the last part of the quoted contribution from blacksta.

British MP Jacqui Smith's Expenses Leaked

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7269420&page=1

By HODA FARHANGHI
LONDON, April 6, 2009

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is under official investigation after her astonishing shopping list -- all charged to the U.K. taxpayer -- was leaked to the British media. The Daily Mail claims that Smith's list of charges includes small and not-so-small expenses like a toothbrush ($3.73), a doormat ($21), a barbecue ($59.62), a Zanussi FWS1432S washing machine and fitting ($476.99), decoration of the hallway ($2,042.30), adult entertainment movies ($14.92). …


Wait, do you mean porn?

Yes, Smith's husband, Richard Timney, got so caught up in charging the taxpayer for every pence he and his MP wife spent, that he "accidentally" put the porn movies he watched on the list, according to the newspaper.

But British taxpayers don't have to worry because Smith has offered to pay back the porn claim -- although not before blaming Commons officials for failing to warn her about her husband's claim.

"I wish that when it had got into the Fees Office that they had brought it to my attention," Smith told The Daily Telegraph. "I would immediately have withdrawn it."
Smith's office declined to comment to ABC News. But it did refer to an interview she gave last weekend to The Telegraph. In that interview she said she hasn't considered resigning her post.

"I think that I have abided both by the letter of the law and by the spirit of the regulations," she said.

Opposition Conservative Party MP Mark Field told the BBC, "She says it's all within the rules, which I'm sure is right -- but the reality is it's not within the spirit of the rules. If she doesn't recognize that I think she's really a bit too stupid to be home secretary."


Commons Standards Commissioner John Lyon is currently investigating whether Smith should have declared a rented room in her sister's London home as her main residence.
Taxpayer Ben Jamal, 45, says Smith is only an example of many MPs with the wrong mentality. "This is a general issue with MPs, which doesn't stop at Jacqui Smith. There is something fundamentally wrong with the system and the MPs' moralities. It shouldn't be about how much they can get from the taxpayer. They should ask themselves: Do I really need this or am I just claiming it because I can?"

Office worker Katherine Brenen, 27, is not much happier with the MPs' mentality.

"It's very annoying when I hear about all the expenses MPs claim. They are already getting paid very well, so I don't understand why they need to be compensated for their expenses. If you want to watch porn, fine, but don't use taxpayers' money to pay for it. I mean, I just get one salary and I don't get compensation anything. Why should they?"


So there is a limit to Smith's expense claims? If there is, it's not apparent in looking at her then; she did a good job of ignoring that boundary for the last decade. Smith is paid $211,754 a year as an MP. However, she has been able to claim an astounding $223,644 for her second home in Redditch since 2001, taking full financial advantage of the second home perk.

The MP who shares the Redditch, Worcestershire, home with her husband and children claims that her main residence is her sister's terrace house in South London.
In this way Smith can legally send the bills for running her Redditch home to the taxpayer. Besides plumbing ($604.76), bed linen ($164.10) and a Samsung WS2BA116T flat screen TV ($520.66), Smith also claimed $3,580.46 a year to pay her cleaners and $17,300.60 annually for her mortgage from 2006 to 2008.

Smith is only one of the U.K. MPs who is currently caught up in a tax scandal. She became the subject of cartoons and a target of public mockery after the claims for her husband's porn movies were leaked.


British Chancellor Alistair Darling is the latest MP to be dragged into the fray over expenses. He reportedly charged expenses on his second home in Edinburgh while living free of rent at 11 Downing Street and renting out his London flat.

Other British politicians in the same spotlight include Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon and MP Tony McNulty.

British politicians are allowed to claim their expenses and charge the taxpayer, provided the expense helps them do their duties, so they are able to justify using public money to finance a second home outside of London or furnish a new home in London. But, in a time when everyone is tightening their belt, does the British taxpayer have the right to be offended by the lavish expenses of their representatives or is it just part of the job?

then kindly read the last part of the quoted contribution from blacksta.

read it  3x, cant still find the  connection y my man needs 4. well we r not talking of mr .dimejis expenses which i will like us to reserach and compare to the home secretary in question.his vehicle breakdown , so what boris cycle to walk, ken livingstone get on the tube all the time. i think we r talking of public servant here.

We can confidently compare the expenses of MPs in London, to that of those in Nigeria. Yes! FOUR BULLET PROOF JEEPS compare to the amount claimed by this MP here.!! WOOHOO!! Victory for the Nigerian people!!

tosh_acer:



Na true - yet in the same England, public officers husband uses tax payers money to pay for porn movies watched by the husband while she is away at work - no be the same england?

Nobody is disputing that you dont have rotten eggs. The fact of matter in the u.k nobody is above the law. as we speak an expenses reform is taking place.

PORK! yet we defend and fight for these thieves.





_{but wait o, how dare she spend tax payers money on adult movie dvd's when she can buy a jeep or 4?}

I_laugh speaks the truth. _{without whatever insult ofcourse}

Good job Ricky

I support Richy, as soon as we hear any more parents insult from that laugher guy who is obviously a political sychophant (otimkpu), I expect Richy to send him back to the National assembly gates where he belongs.

Fool.

RichyBlacK:

NOTE:

i_laugh's post insulting MrCrackles parents have been deleted, and i_laugh has been warned!

Insulting the parents of members on this section would not be tolerated.

Gracias!

Peps, calm down. From I_laugh post, you can tell he's a beneficiary of our conniving and backward system. When top goverment officials saunter into his office "unannounced", this can only suggest he's  partaking of the national cake (or aggresively striving to get his hands on the crumbs). Why won't he defend their criminal habits?

Either way, I only laugh when people compare Nigeria to the UK or US.  Obama has a thoroughly fortified car, so speaker of the house orders 4 jeeps? Yar has over 4 plans in the Presidential fleet yet we don't have a national carrier? How many airlines exist in America? How many automobile manufacturers are in Nigeria?  American leaders deserve all that they get. They have earned it.

The kind of leadership we need in Nigeria is yet to be in sight! Radical. Anyone who can't drive a 504 assembled in Nigeria should not run for office! Shikenna. All the police and security retinue should be cut down drastically, particularly for governors. We have to start attracting the right calibre of people into goverment, not the pick pockets now parading themselves as leaders,  Shame! 


JoshO

joshO:

Peps, calm down. From I_laugh post, you can tell he's a beneficiary of the system. When top goverment officials saunter into his office "unannounced", this can only suggest he's  partaking of the national cake (or aggresively striving to get his hands on the crumbs). Why won't he defend their criminal habits?

Either way, I only laugh when people compare Nigeria to the UK or US.  Obama has a thoroughly fortified car, so speaker of the house orders 4 jeeps? Yar has over 4 plans in the Presidential fleet yet we don't have a national carrier? How many airlines exist in America? How many automobile manufacturers are in Nigeria?  American leaders deserve all that they get. They have earned it.

The kind of leadership we need in Nigeria is yet to be in sight! Radical. Anyone who can't drive a 504 assembled in Nigeria should not run for office! Shikenna. All the police and security retinue should be cut down drastically, particularly for governors. We have to start attracting the right calibre of people into goverment, not the pick pockets now parading themselves as leaders,  Shame! 


JoshO

I suspected as well that guy i_sad was either a family member of a corrupt offical or benecfactor of illegal practices. Damn them all. Punishment will disbursed in due course by the Grace of God.

blacksta:

I suspected as well that guy i_sad was either a family member of a corrupt offical or benecfactor of illegal practices. Damn them all. Punishment will disbursed in due course by the Grace of God.

or even a convoy driver browsing with a gprs enabled phone.