Thatcher Claims £500k Expenses In Five Years

So the MOD spent £45 million on bonuses and reclaim £433 pay from a dead soldier. Does this country stink or what ?

And everyone says the Greek government is corrupt..

it beggars belief. absolutely disgusting. they make a big deal of MP's and PM's wage freeze whlist they quietly line their pockets with expense claims. John Major was obviously thinking of his own old age when he made this fund and others continue to benefit from it now. why do these things continue to be exposed. its nothing but a racket.

Here we go again, another example of blatant theft of public funds by elected servants of the
public. There are no other words to excuse this disgraceful exploitation, in fact there is ample
ground for criminal proceedings to be taken against those named. When are the voters going
to wake up to the fact that our politicians see the Westminster gravy train as the open trough
for satisfying their appetites. It will continue to flourish unless action is taken, and that will be
a difficult.task. Meantime, expose them to your friends.

and they wonder why there are demonstrators outside St Paul's - it's not jiust the banks!

Why are these people carrying out public engagements anyway and to what purpose!

Company directors, Bankers, Politicians. Spot the difference. What do you mean, there isn't any? Oh to be a pigeon - I'm fed up with being a statue.

why are all these ex leaders on a gravy train? syphoning money from the tax payers.

Just goes to prove that once you've had your snout in the trough - you never take it out!

Blair is worth £25M why does he need to claim? Surely he should be means tested like everyone else has to when applying for benefits.

time all these expenses were stopped,the greed of politicians past and present is unprincipled

I don't know why anyone is surprised by this. The government are just legalised mafia. A huge number of senior citizens can't even afford to heat their homes while Thatcher and Blair suck up the tax that people have paid their entire lives. Politicians wake up every morning laughing at the public before having breakfast with corporation heads to see how much more they can screw us over. They see themselves as the untouchable elite, above the law and deserving of the taxpayer's money.

Yet another example of the political elite looking after their own at public expense.

greedy beings. they always tell us to tighten our belts while the open theirs

Surely any payments to ex-prime ministers should be subject to means testing? Another example of greed at the top. This country has become a joke. Labour is no better and Tony Blair is a disgusting, religiously deluded fool who can keep his money, it will do his conscience no good whatsoever. The lives they have destroyed.......

Cameron said 'WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER' so can I claim for taxis, pizza, doughnuts and my shoping at tesco's ? What a load of greedy opinks we have running this country past and presant.

Public service? Thats a laugh! Its all about snouts in the trough!

I agree with Rmi ,this should be stopped and the money saved to help the needy or create jobs or go to get the hospitals back in to shape as they used to be.

This makes you feel sick with anger that these over rich people have the audacity to continue to take off this country when the ordinary people are suffering enough already. What has Thatcher done that deserves £100k per year?
This needs stopping now.

It's a feeding frenzy- bankers, politicians etc., only have so long to suck what they can from the system and the workers. Since when has the truth been spoken by a politician? At least we all know exactly what the government thinks of us.