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Monday, September 28, 2009

All Aboard the MPs' Gravy Planes: Taxpayers' Millions Spent on Exotic Trips That Never Need to be Declared


Grinning and exuberant, he looks like any holidaymaker as he tucks money into a dancing girl’s costume.
It might not be everyone’s idea of fun. But after a day of whale watching and Fijian beaches, anyone might find themselves caught up in the moment. Lord Lea certainly did.
Last month, he was one of two peers who, along with six MPs, spent a couple of weeks visiting Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Fiji.

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1 comment:

  1. Billie Asp Holiday28 September 2009 at 21:02

    What a relaxing time of a holiday l had at the taxpayers expense on a Centrelink benefit, and all under the watchful eye behind...eyes.

    lt was known l was holidaying 7 nights a week at the House of Attitudes holiday resort, via
    certain hidden network entitity agents within government departments of the system,
    which included some individual at Centrelink.
    [social security in Oz.]

    The CPA [Cleaning Punishment Association] had me on sweeping visits nightly with my trusty mop & bucket and a cleaning luggage cargo.
    Many a night was spent aboard with the hard work that was required after the revelry of a gravy train party had departed off for flight into the wee hours before dawns early light.

    The climate changed when my friend Huw popped in to cheer me up sometimes, but he never lingered long and never till the last song.

    l often found myself, Lord knows, PEERing at the state of a toilet bowl during my holiday on New Year Eve or Christmas Island..
    what an exotic job in study it was.
    l bet 100 MPs didn't get to see that during their extremely valuable 'hard working' trips of study buddy.

    But l ain't complaining cause l got something much more out of my holiday.

    When l took that holiday,
    it took time to celebrate,
    just one day out of life,
    it had been..so nice.
    :)

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