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How about maintaining two houses, one in a constituency, one in London?
How about travel between them?
They are just off the top of my head. I imagine it's easier to spend money when it goes under "expenses", but gosh-freakin-darnit MP's have expenses.
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well of course they have expenses...every body does..
try this out for the house problem ..which is a very real one without a doubt given house prices in and around London...agreed..
the armed forces and the police provide accomadation for those who need housing these accomodations are notoriously diabolical
given the value of the service these professionals provide..yes?
so do a similar job for MP's...provide MPs with free or subsidised accomodation in London...i have no problem with that the issue is a very real one..
but you can bet your life that if they did do this ..the accomodation would be far superior to that provided to a member of the armed services..
that's the rub..why and indeed how should an MP get preferential treatment on the basis of their profession?
are they Lords and the rest of use mere serfs?
if so i thought they were trying to get rid of reduce the influence/power of the House of Lords for this precise reasoning
it's just politics and that's their job...why should they themselves be the only ones in the country exempt from their own decisions?