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Posted in the company on July 23, 2008 at 5:11 pm

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There’s been a load of fuss about MP’s expenses and their “second homes”. I don’t really understand this. Bizarrely for a the London Centric media no one seems to be saying what about the MP’s who live here already? Plenty of  people commute from my area - no company would fund moving expenses let alone second home expenses if they offered me a job in Westminster. In fact my lovely company didn’t offer me expenses to travel / move when they closed my local office. It was work from home or fund your own 5 hour commute (or take statutory redundancy).
Anyway, back to MP’s. Because it is potentially a short job (although 5 years is longer than most peoples contracts these days) and because some work is in the constituency and some in London they get funded for a second home. Why not just set up furnished flats which the country owns and lend them out?

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Comment by Sharon Jackson - July 23, 2008 on 8:24 pm

You know Dave, I had the same idea myself. Especially in times when govt spending is being reined in for the working folk you’d think the MPs (who are there to serve the people) would be trying to cut back on expense accounts. I could rant on but…

Comment by davef - July 24, 2008 on 1:07 pm

That’s good then - I did think after I’d posted “I shouldn’t really post mad ideas, people will think I’m mad!” so thanks for agreeing! :-)

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