Comments on: Here’s How the MPs’ Expenses System Should Work http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/14/heres-how-the-mps-expenses-system-should-work/ James Higgs's Blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:24:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Zoe Whitley http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/14/heres-how-the-mps-expenses-system-should-work/comment-page-1/#comment-2883 Zoe Whitley Thu, 14 May 2009 14:19:47 +0000 http://blog.jameshiggs.com/?p=269#comment-2883 Can YOU be my MP? Totally agree with you on all points. Can YOU be my MP? Totally agree with you on all points.

]]> By: Simon I'Anson http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2009/05/14/heres-how-the-mps-expenses-system-should-work/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Simon I'Anson Thu, 14 May 2009 14:18:47 +0000 http://blog.jameshiggs.com/?p=269#comment-2882 Agree wholeheartedly with your proposals. As a cabby said to me the other day (if there were more people like you in power...) Anyway, I have always thought that as MPs are public servants there should be a pool of public housing they are allocated in London. Furnishing is done on their behalf to, as you point out, avoid lavish furnishings expenses. If they want plasma TVs and plush chandeliers then they can put it on 4 years interest free like the rest of us. (Not that I have any chandeliers) If it's good enough for our service men and women (the majority of my childhood was spent in married quarters) it should be fine by our MPs. Agree wholeheartedly with your proposals. As a cabby said to me the other day (if there were more people like you in power…)

Anyway, I have always thought that as MPs are public servants there should be a pool of public housing they are allocated in London. Furnishing is done on their behalf to, as you point out, avoid lavish furnishings expenses. If they want plasma TVs and plush chandeliers then they can put it on 4 years interest free like the rest of us. (Not that I have any chandeliers)

If it’s good enough for our service men and women (the majority of my childhood was spent in married quarters) it should be fine by our MPs.

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