From The Metro:
Instead of paying for second homes, parliament should build dorms for MPs. The MP would pay for his or her constituency home and could stay in communal accommodation when in Westminster. They could benefit from car pooling, dedicated access to parliamentary networks (so as to avoid leaving disks on trains) and, at the end of a term, the dorm would pass to the next incumbent of the position rather than the MP pocketing the sale cost.
Phil, London SE1.
... and from The FT:
Sir, Presumably those who received the 125 per cent loans that Northern Rock handed out after the government bail-out are tickled pink. These rare creatures now have low interest loans worth more than their property values and are backed by a triple A rated mortgage bank funded from taxpayers’ cash.
One lender’s toxic debt is clearly another borrower’s fragrant liability.
Paul J Weighell, Purley, Surrey.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Readers' letters of the day
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And MP's dorms could be let out to tourists during Parliamentary recesses - that should save a bob or two as well.
....and of course MPs should pay from their income a reasonable charge for the dorm / office facilities. After all, if it's good enough to charge those released from jail after years of wrongful imprisonment a "board and lodging" deduction from their compensation, then these chiselling, greedy, self-centred snout in trough b'stards should surely be falling over themselves (for us) to see that they pay their way.
Phil's idea was quite an interesting one. The 'second homes allowance' costs the taxpayer over £11,400,000 every single year. Imagine how easy it would be to put something like dorms in place for that kind of money.
No. The dorm idea would result in another bit of government providing pisspoor accomodation having been contracted out at ludicrous prices. A few years after it was created, some journalist would work out that each MP could afford a Bayswater home for the same cost.
Those MPs' dorms should, of course, rely for their electricity solely on wind-generated energy. There should be no recourse to the national grid (and thus those naughty coal/gas/nuclear plants) when the wind fails to blow or - wind actually blowing - if the claimed installed capacity of said wind-farms turns out to be (surprise surprise) a complete fiction.
I'm a bit thick sometimes so I take it that your original post is suggesting that certain politicos are fighting for the right to be housed in dorms, for the benefit of us proles whilst a very, very few are taking advantage of the fact that an 125pc loan is only available to those and such as those who qualify due to being a Member Of The Labour Party.
A calumny, Sir!
Please be of the pointing out of this to the above commentators.
Thank you,
STB.
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