What really gets me is the poor way MPs expenses are reported. (I haven't been around this week and I am catching up by reading the eldest posts first, so you might have writing about this...)
There seems to be an assumption that, say £150k is private expenses, when in fact it pays to run offices, hire staff, travel back and forwards one reason Scottish MPs always seem to have the largest expense claims) and pay for accommodation in London.
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Date: 2007-Oct-27, Saturday 19:07 (UTC)There seems to be an assumption that, say £150k is private expenses, when in fact it pays to run offices, hire staff, travel back and forwards one reason Scottish MPs always seem to have the largest expense claims) and pay for accommodation in London.