MPs use taxpayer-funded expenses to pay bills worth thousands. You get a £200 loan
Not strictly a backhander: but why are MPs getting their extra heating bills paid on expenses – along with an increase in their wages?
The following should be self-explanatory:
Tory MP Edward Leigh claimed back £2,332 for heating last year, and £2,474 the year before.
You are being offered a loan of £200 to help with yours. #CostOfLivingCrisis pic.twitter.com/LxWxoFffEK
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) March 15, 2022
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed £2,588 last year for heating oil at his Suffolk home, where he lived with his wife.
Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike him much more.
You get a £200 loan.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) March 15, 2022
Conservative MP Virginia Crosbie claimed back more than £2,600 to cover her gas and electricity bills last year.
Again, you get a £200 loan.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) March 14, 2022
These are just three examples. Want to know how many MPs are sponging thousands of pounds from you – that’s right, you personally – this way?
340:
How much more prodding are the people of this country going to take before they finally react and fight back?! pic.twitter.com/vi5NJlXNdP
— Paul Gibson #GTTO (@Paulgibson69) March 15, 2022
Connected to this, here’s a good question:
If MPs on £81,932 need a pay rise of £2,212 to cover the cost of living increase, then by the same logic, minimum wage earners on £17,374 need a pay rise of £66,770 to cover the cost of living increase
— Stop the Genocide (@eryxian46) March 15, 2022
In fact, the pay rise is supposed to cover extra work that MPs have to do now – and RD Hale’s argument still works.
By the same logic, if MPs deserve £2,212 to cover the value of the extra work they’re having to do, then minimum wage earners deserve £66,770. And their heating costs paid by the government.
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