Comments on: Most MPs look after their own interests first.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:25:40 +0000

I just Googled Bliar & £296k, it reveals a lot about C&Gs lending policy! Apparently he bought a Connaught Square property with a 5% deposit and a £3,467,500 mortgage, which was more than 18 times his salary at the time, and has always been surrounded in mystery. The house took the couple’s mortgage commitments to £4 million, which included the Durham property, and two flats in Bristol, one of which has since been sold.
He must have known what kind of income he was going to get when he escaped the PM role before the shite hit the fan.
I expect we paid through his expenses for his “gurus” too!
I just wish the propeties had crashed in price while he had them! although if C&G had foreclosed, we as taxpayers would have had an even bigger bill for irresponsible lending wouldn’t we?

By: Steve Holloway

Steve Holloway — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:21 +0000

Why are we so suprised? And why are we only looking at them returning the over draw on expenses, why are we not looking at reclaiming the assets to which the claims are attached?

Mr Blair afterall had built up a significant property portfolio on the merger salary of a Prime Minister!!

Why stop at just their expenses,MP’s and all public sector workers receive “guaranteed” retirement packages funded again by the tax payer, why havent they switched schemes to defined contribution/money purchase schemes in line with the rest of the country? This in turn will help fund the huge debt that the tax payer now has to face as yet another price to pay in bailing out the greed and avrice of the banking world.

The only public sector employees deserving of guarnted retirement packages in my view are the Armed Forces, Nurses/health workers , Fireman and Police.

Enough is enough!

By: alan

alan — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:40:16 +0000

How could the Blairites a few years ago afford several London properties and 2 Bath Buy To Let properties on their income? Do we report suspected mortgage fraud or what? Didn’t C & G advance the main mortgage?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:53:55 +0000

I read somewhere that Tony Bliar had claimed £296,000 in interest on a £30,000 mortgage, is he too going to repay this? or will he get his wife to defend his actions in court for not repaying it?

By: Ben Bridge

Ben Bridge — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:45:51 +0000

Let’s face it, there’s been no accountability for this whole mess we’re in at the moment…

A lot of MP’s screw the taxpayer for everything they can get, and where’s the accountability – NOWHERE!

The FSA’s primary duty is to uphold confidence in the financial sector for the public – DID THEY DO THAT, NO. HAS ANYONE FALLEN ON THEIR SWORD OR BEEN SACKED, NO.

The Banks’ screwed up and where were the FSA asking the right questions – NOWHERE!

The FSA screwed up, and where were the Governement – NOWHERE!

The Government won’t get involved in commercial decisions made by the Banks now (as they didn’t before this damned mess!), but expect a different result this time….WHY!?!?!!

The Banks are full of people lining their own pockets; Parliament seems to be full of people lining their own pockets (not all of them of course, but…); the FSA are allegedly a bunch of incompetent clowns who clearly don’t fully understand what they’re supposed to be regulating…and let’s face it, it could be suggested that most of them work for the FSA because they can’t get a proper job in the financial sector and this is the next best option (I wouldn’t suggest that personally, but hey…).

The problem seems to lie with the fact that these people, instead of being selfless and helping people, are in it for their own benefit and no regard for the impact on other people, and many, many people are now quite rightly sick of it.

I’m afraid that Politics and all the quangos such as the FSA are all tarred with the same brush, and it smells pretty disgusting from where I am.