General Election: 2010 Vote Now!

[Arthur Little]

I imagine most of use have 'fiddled' the expenses, or took something from the company we work for we shouldn't have (and that includes use of the Net), so the MP's are not alone.

Guilty as charged m'lud! But, for the most part, the jobs I had didn't entail the need to claim expenses. And so, the full extent of my 'pilfering' - as opposed to actual 'fiddling' - amounted merely to the acquisition of the odd item of office stationery, such as an alphabetically-indexed notebook [which is still in my possession some 40 years later] probably a few ballpoint and highlighter pens and, perhaps, a couple of rolls of Sellotape, &c.

In fact, on the one occasion that entitled me to fill-in any form of 'chitty', my then boss [a miserly old ] instructed me to use public transport and *retain my bus tickets for inspection. As the task I'd been assigned to involved knocking on doors and/or the random distribution of sales leaflets in various streets within my home town, I decided to be "resourceful" by using my bike and, mission accomplished, rode round to the main bus terminal ... where I gathered up as many discarded bus tickets as I felt would be required, and duly presented them in return for an appropriate reimbursement. *"Problem" solved!

[KeithD]

.....where I gathered up as many discarded bus tickets as I felt would be required, and duly presented them in return for an appropriate reimbursement. *"Problem" solved!

WOW!!! What a coincidence.....your old boss is a member on here!

[IainBusby]

I really don't know these days, whatever we choose we'll still be in a right mess. I normally vote Labour but like everyone else I'm completely disillusioned with them right now. On the other hand though, after going through the experience of the 1980's, I know I could never vote Conservative again. One thing that really scares me to death is that we'll end up with a Tory landslide which I think will be extremely divisive for the country as a whole; if your rich you'll get richer and if your poor you can sod off.

I'm convinced they'll do exactly what they done when Maggie was swept to power with a big majority, they'll cut services and they'll cut or remove taxes that affect mainly the rich. They will also probably sell off anything that is owned by the state that they didn't manage to sell off the last time they were in power.
Iain.