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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
There is no link to this thought.
Just thinking we could save a lot of money overnight, by stop paying wages to MPs etc.
Anyone wondered - IF, MPs can claim expenses on everything from decorarting, to catering to cleaning the bogs and even newspapers, whats the point of paying them £100.000 grand per year in wages, what do they do with it.
Even if they fly abroad on holiday - the taxman US, pay for there flights etc.
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Oh dear, Arthur, the reason that MPs claimed for the very air they breathe is because they were not given pay rises( well not real ones) during the Thatcher and Blair years. They were advised to supplement their income via the expenses system.
That is why councillors the length and breadth of the country earn more, on paper, than Westminster MPs, and in many cases, the PM.
The expenses policy was there to supplement their wages already.
So it's a great idea, and if it makes you feel any better, you can sleep knowing you and Mrs Thatcher think the same way! Doesn't that give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside?