MPs Get Fat on Your Taxes
Guido wants to reach for the gunpowder when he reads that MPs are entitled to a £400 per month food and grocery allowance. That's over £13 per day, no receipts required. Guido has a policy idea - MPs should get the same budget allowance for food that they allocate to schoolchildren. 37p per day. If its good enough for children, its good enough for them.UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments its actually a per diem allowance of £20. Why do they need an extra twenty quid a day to get food. Do they really need this income support?
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Something else we can agree on...please don't hold back on the gunpowder, and this time make sure you don't bog it up.
To be fair I think you know the 37p for schoolchildren is only for their lunch, and let's face it there aren't many MP's that manage to get by on only lunch, unless it's two bottles of claret and a six course meal... not thinking of anyone in particular!
All MPs should do a month on the Old Age Pension and another month in a wheel chair so that they experience real life.
£400 per month
£4800 per year
£4800 x 650MPs = £3,120,000 a year according to my calculations.
Go on Guido, nuke 'em all.
No comment on MEPs expenses?
Its actually £20 per day - MPs have a five day week - four day really since most arrive late Monday and leave early Friday.
umm, am I being stupid or isn't that what they should be spending their SALARY on?
My salary (less tha 1/4 of the lowest paid MP) has to cover trivial expences such as food & drink!
Oh yes, and I pay £1.50 per day for my son's school dinners, so why does only 37p go on his meal?
And I would just love to know what the income tax arrangements are for these benefits in kind. Do they pay tax on the full value or do they have an arrangement with the Inland Revenue regarding what proportion are treated as legitimate expenses?
Look Guido ,
I just don't know what you are complaining about . Surely you realise that MPs need to eat and the 37p English you refer to applies only to English MPs. In Scortland we have arranged things differently courtesy of the British government and the Barnett Rules such that we are able to spend �1.24 perday on each our of our schoolchildren who obviously are more worthy and valuable recipients of English money than mere English children .
Yours tolerantly,
Angus McBravefart.
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