"This Is WRONG!" | Labour Minister Claims Public Money To Cover Energy Costs

[@philipwilkes2780]

She, along with her fellow MPs are a disgrace!

[@manchesterutdfan66]

This is taking the piss out of the British people...Our OAP's freeze while this clown leaves her heating on 24/7

[@Duchess_in_Windsor]

The pensioners and public are freezing ...I'm sitting in clothes plus dressing gown as expensive to hear my home and I work 🤔🤔🤔

[@herbertmorley3142]

Another champaign socialist!

[@jasoncooper1728]

@herbertmorley3142 like Lee wankerson who claimed 222k in expenses

[@Bertrum123]

You do know your being conned by rupert murdock and Rebecca brooks .one of the worst hick news channels wernt they fined for tapping a murderd teenagers phone milliy dowler and you listen to this bunch god luv ya .

[@geoffwright9570]

Wonder how many pensioners cancelled winter fuel allowance this will take.

[@14godfrey]

These Labour politicians make me sick.....ashamed of nothing,offended by everything.

[@davidanderson7138]

welcome to Socialism!

[@bernardedwards8461]

It's not just Labour.

[@fin1131]

Once upon a time, our MPs used to be frit of the voters, now they have made the voters frit of them, they used to be held accountable and used to take responsibility, that changed once they merged into the UNI party and began serving their UNELECTED Billionaire Davos masters/donors, under the BUILD BACK BETTER slogan. Only Reform can save us all.

[@jennifersanders7764]

Utterly disgraceful.

[@denise4487]

If pensioners are means tested THEN SO SHOULD MPS

[@Ann-qf5vk]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@PatChapman-g8y]

Absolutely

[@pompeypops57]

Mps should never be able to claim a heating allowance when they earn such massive wages . They are only there to help themselves old people do not matter anymore . The more pensioners that die the more money they have for themselves and the illegal immigrants

[@DrawnInk1]

They should be made to pay it back. So disgusting how these politicians live off the back of taxpayers while depriving poor pensioners winter fuel allowance. Should lose her seat, her constituents need to petition for her resignation.

[@susanshadrake6193]

Sign the petition. Send the message - Starmer, we don't want you or your rotten 'government'.

[@barrycoleman9097]

The worst part of all this when MPs talk about getting rid of the winter fuel allowance with the biggest grins on their faces while all the pensioners are now finding out it's them that are paying for the heating of MPs mansions SHAME ON LABOUR

[@oliverplays9598]

There always saying how wealthy pensioners are , it's a shame they can't withdraw all this money and put it where it effects the ones that have shafted them . I don't know if that's possible?

[@ImJustGoingToSay.....]

Just because you can doesn't mean you have to. No morals at all in labour!

[@lizrigby-jones3700]

A disgrace! to our nation. 😡

[@hcw199]

They have no shame.... And guaranteed they are laughing at you!

[@bernardedwards8461]

You're right, we have become a laughing stock among our own representatives, who in reality represent no one but themselves, the WEF and the WHO!

[@meehawlcollins9411]

40.000 terminally ill OAP have lost their winter fuel payments while a millionaire member of parliament claims her heating costs

[@pompeypops57]

This is why they are hated and need to be removed . Pensioners on next to nothing money wise and there money is capped .

[@sbalmer132]

I don’t know how any MP claiming a winter fuel allowance looks their constituents in the face

[@RonaldShea5680]

The Labour party's grotesque horror show continues unabated.

[@jasoncooper1728]

Tories are the same

[@ptb2008]

@@jasoncooper1728 Sorry but the Labour party have pontificated for the last 14 years and then it turns out they are even worse.

[@taffyterrier]

@@ptb2008 Johnson increased MPs expenses by £10,000 a year to cover the “additional costs of working from home” during lockdown. Did he reduce their expenses by £10,000 when lockdown ended?

[@johnadamski6246]

​@ptb2008 No it isnt ,all MPs of all parties claim their bills of their expenses.

[@sirjohng1]

@@taffyterrier: All MP's get a General Election bonus of around £30,000 - £30,000x650 MP's will cost the British taxpayers £19,500,000 so should help keep MP's warm this winter eh? FACT:All MP's get a Special Payment from the TAXPAYERS at the time of a General Election to assist them during this time. It is equivalent to 4 months basic salary which amounts to around £30,000 (Tax free?) so why do they need a raise this year in addition?

[@WAC-qh6mk]

An inflated sense of their own importance labour party & Liz Kendall no moral compass

[@colinharrison5501]

Heating will on 7 days aweeks ,even when the house is empty,

[@Hamish2016]

There all the same DISGUSTING

[@tomrobinson8384]

All apart from Reform MPs

[@Hamish2016]

@tomrobinson8384 Yes, totally agree REFORM for me

[@ianashton1593]

They aren’t politicians to serve the people, they go into politics to serve themselves, it’s as simple as that.

[@MarilynUnderdown-n2r]

How the hell do they get away with this?? It's all so corrupt. Hard working people, the tax payer are paying for these disgusting people to live in luxury.

[@jaguarskills69]

Unfortunately, they can, and they don't give a flying f**k! about Joe publics opinion.

[@paulhinkley11]

The police let them The law They make

[@Rollokreef]

What a vile woman

[@jasoncooper1728]

There all vile 😂😂

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Absolutely

[@Stuart-f2m]

100% Vile

[@REX4340]

Animal Farm

[@jacquelinegrace778]

Don’t disrespect the poor animals lol

[@guardian100]

And the windmill will fall again.

[@puddled1]

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” for those people who may be unfamiliar with George Orwell’s Animal Farm. A chilling read in today’s society.

[@davidthomson4102]

It’s an utter disgrace, what about the poor pensioners… you bunch of hypocrites…. I work for a living and think twice before I put the heating on… so the MP’s will stay warm, and the illegal migrants will stay warm whilst pensioners will die through hypothermia

[@johnpower-kv1bc]

They want the old the sick and the poor gone, they forget one day they will be old sick or poor them self

[@CARLTULLY-tf5qu]

It's sickening & disgusting.

[@darrents44]

All stinks.. but nothing new..

[@charleslouden6600]

So were paying for her millionaire husbands fuel bill as well.

[@markbooth1117]

It appears so.

[@brianmaynard9282]

We are paying all there heating bills, I bet Starmer and his Islam party don't go cold this winter, They are a bunch of total hypocrites.

[@stuartwray6175]

'their'

[@HenryWilkinson-c5n]

This is absolutely insane! 😱

[@VijayK-dw9ug]

No words to describe this hypocrisy.

[@jasonlightbody5356]

It's sick just pure disgusting

[@peterwhitear7716]

if these mp's can afford a second home then they can afford to pay the heating bills it needs to be stopped that we pay it

[@nickgreen5829]

It’s unbelievable these labour thieves

[@mosheridan7016]

The arrogance of these liebor people

[@voxmomvoxmom3067]

As long as we continue to act like doormats they will continue to wipe their feet on us.

[@simonwiltshire6513]

mp who claim unnecessary cost for there own benefit should be made to return money and be taken to court for theft and dont forget this would all be tax free

[@alipeacock3685]

Absolutely agree ..claiming heating money for a second home is quite vulgar .

[@Ann-qf5vk]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@annealbrecht396]

Reform the way forward

[@alipeacock3685]

It’s all wrong ..they should pay their own heating bill ! They have money coming out of their ears , yet they still claim ..and our pensioners cannot afford to heat their home for the love of 300 quid !

[@raymondelf7520]

this is why they don't know how the public live or how much a loaf is etc.. as they don't pay for anything

[@TheGazza636]

They know they just don’t care

[@animalian01]

To me, the fact that a person who is in the Labour party, which is meant to be the workers party and is backed by thousands of normal working peoples union dues, lives in a £4million mansion is ridiculous.

[@bigd5090]

She gets £160,000 a year and still claims heating on expenses?! What is her salary for?

[@grahamdrummond2412]

It's all in the rules ! Suck it up 😮

[@wynbrown5985]

For doing nothing apart from robbing the idiot taxpayers.

[@MisterHampshire]

What is her salary for? To tell everyone else that they have to make do with what they can on perhaps a tenth, and less, of that.

[@rogerking2933]

F ings discussing yet another Grifter from the labour party !!

[@Van-1954]

Starmer was going to SMASH the gangs millions of pounds later They have caught 1 man selling dinghies

[@Ann-qf5vk]

It was parts for dinghies I think

[@GaryWoodhouse-uw1wc]

He also does a nice line in flip flops and beach wear.

[@vickyshaw5702]

Disgusting .

[@Corkedit]

We need a full upturn of the political system. FULL

[@nicktaylor4710]

I can barely pay my own heating bills. Why should I have to cough up for hers?

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Absolutely

[@mutely7152]

Taking the P"""s now 100% come on Britain how long are we going to put up with this 😡

[@anthonymonks6493]

Shame full

[@OllyB-rt7rw]

Absolutely no shame

[@rjtjtckt3998]

Blatant theft! It makes one feel like thieving also.

[@johncrawford8214]

Time to remove all perks from the UK government

[@BRI-25040]

Sack it ?

[@Wickedgit-r8r]

This revelation has left me feeling sick to the pit of my stomach. This government is filled to the brim with the most utterly disgusting people.

[@GizmoJones]

Well correct if I am wrong but it’s the same for all the hotels we are paying there heating bill no one in them there getting cold.

[@EddieMcColl]

The government should pay for their own heating. What the hell is going on.

[@TimWhitehead-o5s]

Even if a working class person with 25p in the bank makes it to be a MP by the time they leave they are millionaires, I believe they save every penny they earn and live off expenses

[@fredsmith5473]

I suspect there's more to it than that, with dubious political consultancies etc.

[@seewhatifound]

True sociailism in action. Those at the top live a life of luxury, whilst the serfs live on little and have to struggle on, to survive.

[@Van-1954]

Just a question does the mayor of London claim for his HEATING because he’s had a lot of freebies

[@mutely7152]

You just know he does.i bet my house he does.

[@Greylobster]

He probably lives in his own home so I doubt it

[@Van-1954]

@@Greylobster so does Kendall live in her own 4 million pound house and it didn’t stop her So l don’t understand your reasoning

[@Greylobster]

@@Van-1954 technically that's her second home because her constituency is up north. That's why she can claim it, not saying it's right

[@running-n1c]

Is disgusting the amount of money they're on how's your pay for their own heating bills we have to

[@RayTeggie-er7pb]

Arrogance is what comes to mind

[@DaveNicoll-p3l]

maybe another petition should be got up so they discuss their perks and recognise how angry the public are and the fact it is sheer hypocrisy.

[@Ann-qf5vk]

👍👍👍👍

[@oliverplays9598]

And while we're at it, what about a petition for instead of 5 years in power maybe 2/3 years . Might make them work for the people who voted them in knowing they need to get there finger out or otherwise there soon out .

[@CNCnStuff]

This is an embedded entitlement, and people like this take every advantage of it. MPs should be provided with all expenses paid accommodation in London, close to Parliament. That way no expenses would be claimable (except maybe travel expenses) and anyone who choses to live in their own home should do so at their own expense - like everyone else has to do!

[@stuartgooding7295]

And they always say "" well its within the rules ...RULES THEY MADE FOR THEM SELVES ....from now on the rules ..must be made buy us .not MPS !!!!!

[@BeverleyDay-dk9cm]

Why does she need another house if she is living in London if her constituency is in another part of the country then that is her fault . You what they say going up the ladder and falling down the ladder you get kicked by everyone you stood on, wait till Labour gets thrown out those on the front seats their grins and nods will be well and truly over and i will laugh my socks.

[@Ann-qf5vk]

👍👍👍👍

[@foxy1960]

I am tight but No matter how rich or poor I was there is a point that I would say no I am not going to take that money. There is something really wrong in the minds of these people.

[@sylviahepple9103]

Also remember the 50s women the government took 6 years of pension off them all whèn they changed this from 60 to 66 . With no letter from dwp roughly £54000 off each pensioner .

[@Ann-qf5vk]

That's me

[@shirleytuck2163]

That's me too

[@davidsutherland7953]

It's millions that had this happen to them funny at same time more migrants came in to country p every woman's 50k paid for them this is happening all over Europe It's called robbing Peter to pay Paul government's think we are all stupid

[@dotmac6480]

And me .

[@susanbarker2570]

Me to !

[@EllenMckean]

One rule for them an another for us, lining their pockets before they get kicked out 😡😡

[@TraceyFrancis-h6k]

Hypocrite! Absolutely despair and despise this government. Shame on her and them all. 😡🤬

[@ritasearle7736]

So so wrong they should pay there own winter payment 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Captainblack710]

Seriously they have to stop this crap !!!! Stop what they doing all of them, and get them boats stopped , we haven’t got long left .

[@archiesmum8601]

She has no shame, how can someone who owns a 4 million pound mansion and be able to "claim" money for heating... Claimed from WHO & HOW? It's not from the benefits agency, its not through a pension so who paid out on this claim?

[@ChristinePenny-u3h]

They're all on gravy train..

[@markbooth1117]

full steam ahead for them, while we are either stuck at the signals, or our train has been cancelled.

[@staffs-bloke]

What I can't understand is why no one is querying the supposed cost of heating a house that she's only in at weekends. She appears to pay more to heat that house than I do for the house that I live in full time.

[@ianashton1593]

You probably only have the heating on at a sensible level and only when you need it. Because we are paying she’s probably got it on 24/7 and set at a high temp regardless of whether she’s there or not.

[@Nikiforos59]

Politicians are disgusting when they think thats all right

[@SusanBell-dl5gr]

They make the rules to benefit themselves, people in public service should be compensated for their service, but they are supposed to be making all our lives better not only themselves. I think Starmer wants to get himself back on the EU Gravy train at the expense of ther rest of us.

[@dorotheamorgan9853]

The basic annual salary for MPs is 75,000 topped up with other perks , subsidies on food and drinks in the Westminster They know nothing on how we pensioners live and most working people in lower paid jobs

[@markbooth1117]

And free TV licences, as they use it for "work" to watch the political shows.

[@jackyking5779]

Teacher here. Good degree..never earned more than 29k. Sixty hour week. Never claimed a penny because I was lucky to have a profession, pension, holidays, unlike many of my pupils' parents..horrified by these greedy incompetents with no moral compass.

[@helenclark2104]

So why dose she get to 3,000 pounds for her heating and a normal person can only claim 3,00 pounds Why can’t the pensioners claim 3,000 And how dose she use 3.000 of gas when she not living there And why do they get perks for doing their job

[@StenhouseJC]

Her global warming contribution at taxpayers expense.

[@nickuk9003]

Another hypocrite. When will they keep thier greedy heads down in the trough. Every time they open thier snouts lies and hypocracy vomits out.

[@atackio1316]

Awful greedy excuse for a human being

[@johnfrancis4401]

There are two tiers of policing, two tiers of justice, so why is it surprising that there are two tiers of heating?

[@chrislee2221]

Disgusting level of greed amongst the labour party , how much more can they keep taking from the public to line their own pockets?😢

[@robinburn4974]

Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others, politicians and illegal immigrants are "special"

[@grahamcook9289]

The hypocrisy of north Londonrich

[@bjc382]

Means testing for MPs

[@joeheaton4927]

Disgusting and disgraceful politicians no shame, no conscience doesn't give a fu-k about the pensioners only themselves

[@jongarratt5383]

A bit like when Cooper and Balls were double billing the tax payer for same home

[@jongarratt5383]

Rupert Lowe gives his MP salary to charity every month

[@positivethinker5848]

A single person allowance and only for the time they are actually in residence. Monitored. If she is not in residence does she allow others to use the property, in which case we are paying for them. Nice perk. Abuse of the system and the public.

[@Jonnyshoot192]

One More NAIL in LIEBOURS COFFIN.

[@maggie19441]

If Ĺiz Kendal is using gas and electricity while in her London home, then she is not using it in her constituency home. How many weeks per year does she actually reside in her constituency home. Considerably less energy is used in summer and possibly none during summer recess. In effect energy costs apply to only 6 months. How many weeks did she use her constituency home from Oct to April. All energy expenses for her constituency home should be part of her salary

[@Phylicity]

Surely it is the heating for her constituency home which is being paid. I hope they have to provide bills to collaborate their expenses.

[@michaelnannestad7399]

Her constituency being Leicester, one can only assume she spends as little time amongst the mosques there as possible!-)

[@lindamillar2505]

She should pay all her bills from her salary thats what everyone else does these politicians could teach the mafia a thing or to

[@PhilipLongden-e2y]

?we should be able to look into MPS expenses and everything they claim for, they should receive one payment only, no more perks. I think this should be examined and audited quickly ( but not by Reeves & co.) We the British people including pensioners struggle to make ends meet whilst MPs are living in luxury. No wonder they're all millionaires at taxpayers expense. SHAME ON THEM .😢

[@samsungcrossland2036]

More freebies from labour party and people cannot afford to switch heating on 😡 I don't switch heating on because I cannot afford. And I've already been to doctors twice because cold 🥶 got onto my chest 😢 so by cancelling fuel allowance it's costing nhs more money well done labour 👏

[@Phylicity]

Gets more like Russia every day!

[@KarenSmith-z9b]

Comrade starmer and copper and there lot are doing just fine

[@TonyCarrigan-q4l]

These rules need changed right now, today

[@Talboy-p4e]

Supposed to be working class labour 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Yours Brtish citizen 1960 From Portugal my second home I be back when Labour gone for good ❤❤❤

[@michaeljoynes-e6v]

Utter greed and arrogance, disguising their ignorance and a complete inability to accept responsibility for failure when it will surely happen.

[@KeithBaxter-tm4hz]

All these MPs should have their expenses means tested, Liz Kendall is following the true Labour Party policy led by Stasi Starmer the new Judas Iscariot, grab what you can for yourself, greed is great

[@sandralgkk]

When you go to your MP for help they are hopeless.

[@grahambate1567]

Just read animal farm, it explains everything

[@Phylicity]

Better read it before it is banned.

[@fredsmith5473]

It was intended as a dystopian novel. They are treating it as an instruction manual.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

I`m sat with a 80 watt green house heater tube to keep my hands warm. They turn white when they get cold.

[@jenniferparry8709]

Was it her London home or her constituency house? Different reports on this. Obviously Notting Hill is her first home and should be paid by themselves. If her constituency no way would she use that much

[@accadoza]

I'm alright jack

[@stuartwray6175]

She's a Tory in all but name. The Sun newspaper praised her, June 2015, during the Labour leadership contest. Many Conservative's said that she was the potential leader they feared the most. In 2015 she received just 4.5 %, in contrast with Yvette Cooper on 17%, Andy Burnham on 19%, and Corbyn 59.5%.

[@scottwilson8742]

The damage has already been done all of these hand outs and politicians getting anything in financial assistance has to stop now