Peter Bottomley, the Conservative MP for Worthing West, West Sussex, and Lady Bottomley, the former health secretary, make relatively modest expenses. Mr Bottomley claims £126,603, making him the 561st most expensive MP, while his wife claims another £20,000 from the Lords, making their total claim just over £146,000. But Mr Bottomley claims the maximum possible from the Commons to cover his second home in Westminster, £23,083. Lady Bottomley claimed another £7,500 for overnight stays for the 75 days she attended the Lords in 2007-08.
It's crazy how out of touch most MPs are. Earning £82k, plus getting your meals, travel, and other expenses either paid for entirely or subsidised, and it's still not enough. Makes you wonder if they even have a clue about what some of their constituents are trying to live on.
Lotus wrote:It's crazy how out of touch most MPs are. Earning £82k, plus getting your meals, travel, and other expenses either paid for entirely or subsidised, and it's still not enough. Makes you wonder if they even have a clue about what some of their constituents are trying to live on.
Obviously it'd never happen but I think before anybody can become an MP, they should have to work for minimum wage for one year. All assets would be frozen so that they couldn't cheat.
I cannot fathom how people like that can't look at their income and expenditure and think, "aha! Aaaah... Yes I don't really need that". It's just mind boggling.
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I love the way they're trying to make his Mrs a thing. She looks like the kind of person who'd work on reception at a narrow boat holiday rental place.
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