French MP's.... Vote out an audit of their expenses

[Frederick]

How can a bloke smoke that many Cuban cigars ?   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19004353

[idun]

As expected. Why would they vote for it, unless the great french public makes them. And I hope that they do!

[NormanH]

I posted this on Facebook for my French friends a few days ago..

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Deputes_la_transparence_maintenant/?fBekpdb&pv=2

[Quillan]

Does it really matter? I mean the UK audited their MP's expenses and just a token few actually ended up getting charged with fraud and going to prison when quite honestly most of them should have. What happened in the UK was like me stealing your car (if you have one) then when I am caught giving it back, saying sorry and never charged with theft then the next month when it has all blown over I shall come round and nick your house when your not looking. All this does is show that the UK MP's are not the only corrupt ones in the world.

[Chancer]

I may have misread it but it appears to me to be a fixed allowance of €77K or whatever the figure was that they are all "entitled" to and hence I guess plafonné at that figure.

I came to this conclusion because they didnt say the average allowance of deputés and mention was made of declaring the portion of the allowance spent on personal things for taxation.

If it is an allowance then they will think of it as a right and I bet every one of them claims the maximum just as everyone I know who doesnt work (in France) for a private company uses every one of their "allowance" of sick days, the poor deputés who's genuine expenses for whatever reason do not come to the full figure will of course be obliged to spend the rest on cigars or holidays.

When I was the engineering director of a company I was the only one who saw it as a good thing that I would meet my strategic objectives within the budget that I had negotiated, all the others would have a spending flurry near the end of the financial year for fear of having theirs reduced or challenged the next year.

human nature I'm afraid.

[Quillan]

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When I was the engineering director of a company I was the only one who saw it as a good thing that I would meet my strategic objectives within the budget that I had negotiated, all the others would have a spending flurry near the end of the financial year for fear of having theirs reduced or challenged the next year.

human nature I'm afraid.

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Never worked in a local council then. I worked for a major London council, I shouldn't name it but lets say a recent PM lived there before hand and there was a link between some advisor and his wife about a house or flat, I can't remember which. Their IT budget arrived on the April 1st and by the end of May it was gone and we are talking the whole IT budget of over £1M for everything including council tax computers and schools. The head of IT signed anything put in front of him and lived on Prozac which was good as he slept through most meeting and everyone just bought what ever they liked.