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politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lots pressure on Maria Miller over expenses, but I’m yet to be tempted to bet that she’ll be next cabinet exit
The two main things we’ve learned about cabinet exit betting since GE2010 is that Cameron is loathe to make changes and even when things look grim, almost terminal, for a minister they can survive. Secondly politicians who’ve reached that level are super-resilient and it is easy to underestimate their desire to hang on in there.
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"On top of their €7,957 monthly salary, MEPs get €4299 paid directly into their personal bank account for “general expenditure”, no questions asked, no receipts required.
On top of that, they get €152 for every day they turn up in parliament – and €152 euros more if they vote more than 50 per cent of the time. This has led bonkers situations like the Romanian MEP who has never spoken and votes “yes” to literally everything.
In addition, there’s €21,209 per month for staff costs . All travel between the home country and the parliament (which moves, of course) is reimbursed at cost, as well as distance and duration of travel payments and on top of that, there’s a mileage allowance of up to €12,000 – no receipts required for journeys of less than 800km."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100013043/maria-miller-scandal-if-you-think-westminsters-expenses-are-bad-the-eus-will-shock-you/