I have to nominate 90% + of all MPs.
They all claim expenses and most expenses are dubious:one example?
MPs have used the John Lewis price list as a reasonable costing which quotes
£750 for a second Television- moral justified? What world do they inhabit?
I have recently brought an analogue T.V for £89-but I've had to pay my winter
gas bill-and MY TAXES; but I live in a different world.

Reason :

Kirkby in Ashfield (where he has his office) is a very deprived area and to think he used these people to build up his property portfolio beggars belief.

I cannot forgive him nor others for what they have done.

£480 on cushions for his family home sounds a bit too much comfort to me!

Not the worst, but let's face it, we have a few to choose from! Ian Taylor represents a consituency in Surrey from which you can reach Waterloo in about 35 minutes. Yet he claims the full second-home allowance.

Husband and wife Alan and Anne Keen represent neighbouring constituencies - Feltham & Heston and Brentford & Isleworth. Both are within 30 minutes' commuting distance from central London.

Why do they need a central London flat?

Not all MPs have abused the system. One of the dangers of these revelations is that we will get so angry that we tar them all with the same brush.

I would be well content to see those who are guilty named, shamed, and if appropriate prosecuted for theft or fraud. Indeed, it's vital that that happens, not least so we can be clear about those MPs we CAN trust.

He has the right name, He is a pig with his snout in the trough. But I think this could be an insult to pigs!

I am appalled at the guy's shameless lack of remorse.Not only is he the highest claimer but thinks his only error was in being "badly advised" that initially he was told there was no limit on TV expenses but when he claimed £2600 he was then told there was a limit! It doesn't seem to have occurred to the guy that maybe £500 or £600 spent on a TV in the first instance would have been more than enough for a decent one.Notwithstanding that I don't think a TV is a "reasonable and necessary expense" anyway. A portable fm radio is sufficient.
I await with interest the outcome of the assessment of his rent.

The DWP treat people like dirt whilst its head....James Purnell swans around with max expenses.

He wants to introduce draconian measures for the peasants and to starve them.

James...a mummys boy who has never done a days work in his life. His chum David Freud has defected to the Tory party after the 2 of them took just 3 weeks to blitz the welfare system.

Maybe James and David could concentrate on MP's fraud, fiddling, flipping and create a new MP's Expenses Welfare Reform Act.

Oh and the DWP want everyone to report anyone 'stealing taxpayers money'

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOth...

please feel free to report

I nominate David Cameron. He has offered to pay back the money he accepted to prune his Wisteria, hardly a necessary expense, but has still claimed for Council tax and mortgage expenses when he is hardly in a position to need help with either. He is in no position to reduce anyones benefits nor to bring in the public service cuts he is threatening.

The 2nd home allowance is so that MP's in far-flung parts of the country can have a home in their constituency and another in London, right? So why does the MP for St Albans, a challenging 22 miles from Westminster, need a second home, for which she claims £22,000 each and every year?

The answer: she doesn't! Her "second" home (which it is reported she shares with her daughter) is a flat in St Albans, and her main home is in...Beaconsfield! It was of course her choice to stand for St Albans whilst living in Beaconsfield, and to remain living in Beaconsfield after she was elected. For the rest of us, choosing to work some distance from our home means that we either move or commute (at our own expense). Commuting between Beaconsfield and St Albans is perfectly feasible, and if there is the odd occasion when some duty in St Albans detains Ms Main late into the night, I'm sure her daughter wouldn't charge for putting her up. I wouldn't even begrudge the cost of a take-away curry for the two of them. Failing that, the town does have modest hotels, which her £87,000-worth of staff could doubtless arrange for her and which would cost somewhat less than £22,000 per year!

How nice it must be to have a flat in one of the most expensive towns in the country, paid for by us, and from which she and/or her daughter will doubtless make a handsome profit. And in response to this egregious example of milking the system, Ms. Main had the crust to tell a local newspaper: "Any extravagant claims should be paid back. I feel it is reasonable that MPs should be able to make modest and transparent claims for their second home, either in Westminster or in their constituency."

Modest? £22,000? Even if your constituency is only 22 miles from Westminster, where you don't even have a home, Anne?

The Commons Green Book bans MPs from claiming "the capital cost of repairs which go beyond making good dilapidations and enhance the property".

Phil Hope is this Government's Health Minister for (under-funded) Care Services - well he certainly knows how to take care of himself!

Let's "hope" Corby voters know how to take care of him :-)

Labour's Tourism Minister claimed £25,000 for private security around her London home. Seems like she was saying "I need security, but my constituents can make do with the ordinary police".

Who's politically responsible for the quality of policing? Government Ministers - oops, silly me!

Tried to bully/kid the Fees Office that his wife would divorce him if they didn't pay him £16,500 for HIS second home. Perhaps she will carry out her alleged threat now :-)

£13,000 claimed for non-existent payments on martgage already paid off. "I made an unforgiveable error" (just like Elliott Morley - strange coincidence that!). What does unforgiveable mean I wonder? Pay it back AND stand down from Parliamentary seat (Bury North), I hope.

Frank Roy - Lab MP for Motherwell & Wishaw.

A gentleman voted into one of Scotland's safest "Old Labour" constituencies who appears to have no empathy with what the local voters would have wanted:

1) Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament.

Perhaps this was to hide the fact that for 2007/2008 he was in the top 20% of claimants? For an MP who appears to do nothing but hawk his availability with the local press for any positive photoshoot?

2) Voted moderately against introducing a smoking ban.

For the English & Welsh? He should have had the balls to abstain.

3) Voted strongly for introducing ID cards.

More cost - no benefit - open to fraud, big style.

4) Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.

Again for the English & Welsh? Running with the whips I see...

5) Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.

Yup - an English & Welsh issue again. And very socialist too...

6) Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.

Which are now being used by the Police for everything!

7) Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.

Mr Roy: "Indeed, after 3 visits to Iraq in the last 2 years, I remain totally convinced that Iraq is a far better place now than it was under Sadams regime."

8) Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.

Mr Roy: "After having read the full 14 pages of the Attorney General's Advice, both his statements of March 2003 and his written parliamentary answer at the time, I believe that I would have followed his advice that the war was legal and therefore given my backing to bring about the evil dictatorship of Sadam Hussein"

I want an investigation more now!

9) Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.

10) Voted moderately for the hunting ban.

11) Voted moderately for equal gay rights.

12) Voted for laws to stop climate change.

Yee ha! One that I agree with!!!!

Yes - and IIRC she's also written to people living in that part of the current Brent East constituency which is being moved into the new Brent Central constituency being created for the next election that she's already their MP!
I suppose she takes it for granted that the new constituency will be a safe Labour seat and hers for the asking - regardless of what the electorate may think.

Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent South, has claimed over £37,000 during the past two years for a ‘second home’ in East London which is equidistant from the Commons to her constituency home. She has also published a dubiously authentic letter of personal endorsement (on House of Commons notepaper) from President Barack (mis-spelt Barak) Obama. It’s time the sun set on Dawn.

how many homes does she need? why are we paying for sorting out a place in southampton when she is working in luton and has a place in london as well? ( oh, and a place abroad, of course). the arrogance of the woman beggars belief. she says she has done nothing wrong and comes on television with some sort of sob story about her and her partner not seeing much of each other as if we the taxpayer should feel sorry for her! unbelievable. this is greed beyond belief. she has taken money by deception and brought disgrace to the labour party and should resign before she is pushed. come on gordon brown, start acting instead of sitting on your hands. this revulsion has got to stop.

For shamelessness, the MP for Leyton and Wanstead is hard to beat.

Having spent taxpayer's money to improve his "second home" in his constituency he sold it to buy a more expensive property in Wanstead. Charging the solicitors fees, stamp duty and mortgage fee to us, too.

Then he set about a complete refurbishment of the kitchen in his new house, which cost us over £5,000, and we also pay his mortgage interest at £665 a month.

He virtually tops out on the claims he makes - close to the maximum allowed, but he's utterly shameless. He states, practically boasts, on his website that he and his wife enjoy living in Wanstead. But he tells the Fees Office his "main family home" is in... Colchester.

Of making his claims on the Additional Costs Allowance he says: "It really is part of my salary in all but name. That is what it exists for."

(Really it exists so that MPs can manage to live and work both in their constituency and at Westminster, not for MPs who live and work a tube ride from Parliament to scrounge over £20,000 a year, by claiming they live miles away from their constituents.)

But this quote from his "About me" statement on his website really takes the biscuit: "I like my work, not just to pay off the mortgage, but for the improvements to peoples’ lives it brings.

No Harry, WE are paying off your mortgage, you shameless money grabber. Resign and let a decent MP take over.

Especially given his rank incompetence and contempt shown to those his party sent off to war. How many were killed or maimed because he did not see the need to pay the required money to have our armed forces equipped with the very best; to go into battle without armour or inadequate supplies or shoddy weapons and forced to beg for toilet paper from the Americans? I fail to see how on earth he is simply shuffled around and given such responsibility, when this latest scandal shows his concern only for himself.

On the face of it Harry has kept his claims within the rules. For 2007/08 this includes £23,083 (the maximum) second homes allowance, and £2,380 mileage allowance, to which he is entitled as an "Outer London" MP. But Harry represents Leyton and Wanstead. Leyton is 11 stops on the underground from Westminster,Leytonstone 12 stops, Wanstead 13. Half an hour's journey.

Perhaps someone could show Harry where the tube stations are in his constituency - he has a choice of 3 - and what a ticket looks like. I'm sure that his constituents who travel in to central London every day will be delighted to see him. And the money he saves could employ a nurse at the local hospital.

For thinking we should pay for repairs to her THIRD home especially as the electrol records show her husband lives with her in LUTON!!!

When you consider the other MP for Luton travels by train to Westminster on the days that he attends, you have to wonder exactly why Mrs Moran considers she even needs a second home or is she just like all the others out for an easy buck or twenty thousand?

I think all of our MP's should do the honourable thing and stand down,call a General Election and let us all decide who we now want to represent us.

All of them have abused the system. It might be within the rules but that is no excuse I therefore nominate them all

Arthur C

This web site is so needed at a time like this, i very rarely get angered enough to voice an opinion, but after reading about the MP's expenses i was left fuming. I work full time, earn £11,000 a year, my partner works full time and earns £16,000, total £27,000 a year, from that we pay our mortgage, buy our own biscuits, feed our own dogs, supply our own lightbulbs, decorate it ourselves, buy our own tv's etc etc etc,on top of paying ourbills and having a
night out at the local occasionally.The Mp's are claiming expenses for ridiculous things, in my day, expenses were petrol an a meal if you were entertaining a client. These MP's are on a damn site better wage than most of us, so why cant they afford their own living expenses. Why cant they afford to feed their dogs, why cant they afford lightbulbs,why cant they afford satin cushions. It just goes on and on, and i for one dont pay my taxes so they can claim expenses from it........ my message to them is, buy things like the rest of us do, pay your mortage like the rest of us do, and if you cant afford it, then tough, go without like the rest of us do.

An absolute immoral M.P. this one claims £16k for a mortgage that he had already paid off. is this not fraudulent activity? no probalbly not because is defence (well used)it was an oversight. claiming maybe! maybe! £2 for a kit Kat from amnin bar fridge is on oversight Maybe! but claiming £800 a month for 20 months IS NOT.

The Telegraph campaign is largely rubbish.

What matters is how much the muppets have mined from the system, not what expenditures are nominally associated with their claims.

I nominate Alan Keen MP for outstanding and unreasonable greed. In particular: 1) his additional cost allowance claims have to be taken together with those of his wife also an MP; they are taking the piss by getting more for their luxury town address than most of their constituents have to live on. 2)his constituency is a commuter constituency, several MPs commute from much further away than here (Feltham and Heston)- so there is no justification for his having any 'second home' at all, let alone such an expensive one.

Hazel Blears

Needs to pay back the capital gains as well as pay her capital gains tax. Nice touch as she is the housing minister too.

Well I was leaning towards Tony "I wuv my Mummy & Daddy" McNulty (so much so he has them living in a house paid for by the taxpayer) - but then - well - just what can you say about Mr Morley. So, that's my most shameless.

For having us tax payers pay for a night Zetter in Clerkenwell, where rooms cost £211 a night.

We want that back and whole lot more so keep your cheque book handy Hazel.