Government ‘On Strike’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mp-council-tax-bill-expenses-public-charged-13-million-second-home-liz-truss/

 

Yeah.....let's have a lab/SNP/Lib dims coalition....that'll make things better ...lol...

 

Leaving aside the fact that Starmer has explicitly ruled out a coalition with the SNP, it most certainly would make things better. Anything would be better than this shower of shite.
Quite frankly, a Monster Raving Loony Party government would do better than this set of clowns. They have spent the last twelve years running the country into the ground. They're the most economically incompetent set of charlatans in living memory. And Truss is about to make them even worse.

 

To be honest this doesn't really bother me when it's done right. An MP from Aberdeen for example is expected to server their constituency and also be in Westminster. I have no problem with costs being covered to allow them to cover two places. If that is costs for one property whilst they still pay for their other then it's people really getting upset at the wrong places. Same with staffing costs to run a constituency office, unless people are wrongly the illusion that an MP will personally respond to every e-mail and letter themselves without a staff.

The pisstake kicks in when it is a London based MP who doing this for that there is no excuse.

 

A local MP to me has a second home in Central London which is usually occupied by sn assistant, while he lives with his parents in the constituency. Travel time to Westminster - under an hour

 

I don't support those who are taking the piss, however I do believe it is required for some of the distant MPs.

 

Or have a block of flats/etc based in central London where all the MPs can live whilst in London and when they lose their seat it can be passed on to the newly elected MP for example.

 

The tories have been neglectful and shocking in almost every area of concern....there, I've said it, but naive of you to think that the SNP wouldn't back Starmer on anything that he wanted to put through....

 

I never said they wouldn't. Obviously I hope they do. But Starmer has ruled out any kind of coalition or electoral pact, because the SNP would want promises about an independence referendum as the price for that, which he isn't prepared to give.

 

Means nothing, along with having a weak government we also suffer a truly weak opposition...

 

I would imagine security would be an issue but not impossible. Could even put them on an army base.

Same with the London based office staff. They could be centrally employed and allocated.