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considering that food is food if he's at home he eats if he's in london he eats why does food need paying for ? ok send him back home and give him no food it seems at home he don't eat as in london he see's it as an extra thing :yuck:
MPs are allowed expenses for food and such like because a) they are away from home (debates in the Chamber quite often do not finish until 2am, no time to pop home for a toastie), b) their home is not in London and c) part of their role is to forge links with other agencies and this often involves business entertaining.
£4000 a year is not a lot of money; if I were to work away from my main home for every business week for six months my charity's expenses would leave me with £3500 expenses and I get a measly £25 a night expenses. My last job could have given me nearly £5000 expenses as they had a less restrictive expenses policy.
I think that simons means that you have to eat everyday anyway, so the expenses should only be the for the amount over and above what you would already spend.
I could use the same argument about people in hospital and why we should charge them for the cost of heating/food etc which they are saving by not being at home
I don't expect he will.
Is this limited view of life and very limited ability to express yourself ...the reason your still packing boxes i wonder.
You, as a taxpayer, pay for my restaurant bills when I'm on business.
Does that make you angry too?
But that would mean travelling and possibly losing time when they could be doing other MP related stuff. Would you like to do that? I know I wouldn't.
This has already been explained, has it not?
I am a public official. When I am away on business you pay for my accomodation, food and travel. The only think which I cannot claim is alcohol.
You also pay for my mobile phone bill, plus I get about £400 per month in travel expenses every single month.
Why should MPs be any different?
Who has more power ...a lowly mp in Sheffield or ...a guy who employs a 100,000 people in Sheffield?
Been waiting a while now. It's not a hard question to answer.
well I've moved up a bit mate theere's no point in being a snob and judging my intelligence by my job sorry if I take whats going. now I'm suddenly precious to a certain agency because "I'm not scared of computers"
See ...there is a point people buying all that Chinese crap ...it provides you with a job!:thumb:
it don't neccesarily have to be from china actually that stuff isn't even really worth sending back, I don't know where air conditioners are made (I beleive thats what I'm dealing with) but I do know hotpoint appliances are made in europe and they have returns and damaged goods, mostly in transport its not always a case of bad manufacturing especially when you pile as much as possible in a lorry and don't even use pallets because space costs so much to transport
*holds breath*
what was the question, you seem all steemed up
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thanks lea, so what exactly do the two gentlemen in question do ? you say food allowance I take it you are travelling away from home where you do not have a second home so you can't go cook yourself something. as previously mentioned it would be a lot cheaper if MPs were given state provided and serviced accomodation, we all know damn well they would thinking twice about what the moeny is spent on if it were their own.
pft 4000 £ taxi bills cause her ladyship could not be bothered to drive to the shops herself oh and whats that ? the house keeper went with her ? I wonder who pays the house keeper... let me guess.
You mean hotels or something else?
no gov run homes all in the same building (bit like a hotel) if they are cooked for all at once no need for pricy "chic" restarant bills, in room service would be cheap to make available
You can't eat a house...
I think if you're doing something in your role then fair enough (i.e. go for lunch with a diplomat / minister / constituent etc.) but if it's just groceries for the stir fry you're having that night... it just doesn't add up in my mind.
Except many MPs will have families living at their constituency home. It doesn't cost much more to cook for 4 people rather than 3, but it costs more to cook for 3 in 1 place and then someone eating on their own.