Chris Huhne pockets £17,000 payoff after quitting over criminal charges

[confounded]

You really could not make this stuff up....

Chris Huhne Pockets £17k Cabinet Payoff

Former energy secretary Chris Huhne is to receive a £17,000 payoff after quitting the Cabinet to fight charges of perverting the course of justice, it has been confirmed.
Ministers are entitled to severance pay equivalent to three months of their ministerial salary when they leave the Government. However, the money is not paid to them automatically, but must be claimed by the MP in question.
Mr Huhne has come under pressure from opponents not to claim the tax-free payment, after becoming the first government minister in living memory to be forced out of office by a criminal prosecution.
But the Cabinet Office said: "We can confirm that, following his resignation from the Cabinet, Chris Huhne will receive a severance payment of three months of his ministerial salary."
Before his resignation on 3 February, Huhne, a millionaire, received annual ministerial pay of £68,827 on top of his £65,738 salary as MP for Eastleigh.

 

[whinmoor]

Only one word for it. Disgusting.

 

[Big n Daft]

They forgot..................... plus whatever expenses they can fiddle.

 

[PC Electrics]

Is it any wonder there is so little regard for MPs. Forever on the take.

Anyway, he's only resigned from the Cabinet - he's still an MP isn't he?

If I resign, I'd end up pennyless!

 

[Gavin A]

there's a lamp post somewhere with his name on it...

 

[Deleted member 26818]

The problem as I see it, is that MPs don't get paid enough.
If they were paid enough, then none of them would have fiddled their expenses in the first place.
The blame lies with us, for not paying them a decent wage in the first place.

 

[moggy1968]

really??????
pleant of millionaires in the house of commons!
I think if hew claims it and subsequently is found guilty it should be repaid.

 

[Vegelen]

The problem as I see it, is that MPs don't get paid enough.
If they were paid enough, then none of them would have fiddled their expenses in the first place.

So if all MP's were excessively paid they would serve the public in preference to themselves.......

Which one of us is living in Cloud cuckoo land?

 

[sparkiegaz]

mmm think im in the wrong game,,,,