British House Of Commons Expense Scandal

The British government has been rocked by an financial scandal involving MPs (member of parliament) and their expense accounts, the public feels is exorbitant, wasteful and centered on personal spending.

U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown

While these expense account abuses are certainly not the worst on record in the world, I can see why the British people are upset, especially due to the high tax rate they have to pay.

Gordon is like Mark Kate Olsen, one never knew they had teeth, due to the lack of smiles   

The British people want their tax dollars carefully spent, not going to buying "manure" for a MP's country home in the lovely English countryside.

Sorry, but I cannot resist this joke I feel coming on - it is odd that the MP would need manure, considering politicians in every country of the world are so good at shoveling it and have it in abundant supply. Zing!   

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer (treasury secretary) is mentioned in the scandal, over $9,800 spent on housekeeping expenses, paid for by the taxpayers, when he and his brother shared an apartment.

Jacqui Smith

The now infamous, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who has been warring with U.S. talk show host, Michael Savage, is also mentioned in the scandal, over renting dirty movies, among other things and charging to the taxpayer.

British MPs expense X-rated movies, horse manure

May 8 04:41 PM US/Eastern - British Officials Defend ‘Good Faith’ Expense Reports Causing UK Outrage...

Friday's leaked list of lawmaker expenses has leveled another blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's beleaguered government, which has been blamed for a litany of problems ranging from the Iraq war to the deepening recession.

According to the details published by Britain's Daily Telegraph, Brown paid his brother Andrew more than 6,500 pounds ($9,800) in two years for a maid the two shared when Brown was Britain's Treasury chief. The newspaper declined to say how it had obtained expense claims from 13 ministers but promised to roll out more in the coming days.

Home Office Secretary Jacqui Smith expensed two X-rated movies her husband watched, which she later repaid. Housing minister and former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett claimed 600 pounds ($900) for hanging plant baskets. And former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott claimed 300 pounds ($450) over two years to fix broken toilet seats.

The list could also prove damaging to the opposition Conservatives—one Tory lawmaker expensed fertilizer used on his country house garden while a different lawmaker put in for cans of cat food.

Other expenses, categorized only by political party, included toilet seats, horse manure, wine rack, rat poison, pool maintenance, piano tuning, a chocolate Santa and a pizza cutter.

"I know people will be angry and it looks very bad," Harriet Harman, a Cabinet minister, told the BBC. "We recognize that ... public confidence is dented and we want to restore respect for the House of Commons."...

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