MPs' expenses - they just don’t get it!
Published:
9:59 AM August 12, 2009
Updated:
8:05 PM November 3, 2020
SIR – I have just read the letter from my MP Barbara Follett addressing her reasons for claiming, and now paying back, those expenses. I would like to know in view of her explanation, how �1,600 for window cleaning could be considered a justifiable parlia
SIR - I have just read the letter from my MP Barbara Follett addressing her reasons for claiming, and now paying back, those expenses.
I would like to know in view of her explanation, how �1,600 for window cleaning could be considered a justifiable parliamentary expense? Does serving as an MP make one's windows somehow more grubby?
Well it certainly appears to make their view on financial morality a tad obscure.
Oh dear, they still don't get it, do they?
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