The Biggest Piss-take on MPs' Expenses

[butchersapron]

17 grand for servants (quarters)

In the beginning there was the viscount's moat. Then, as the expenses saga developed, there was a floating duck island funded by the taxpayer on behalf of a knight of the shire.

And now, just as the nation was beginning to tire of the great 2009 expenses scandal, we have servants' quarters paid for out of the public purse.

On top of which, the same scumbag:

failed to pay capital gains tax on the sale of his country house for £1.2m in 2005.

He will repay £40,000 to cover the tax

which may even be a tax credit rather than a straightfoward payback.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why didnt you try and answer the 2nd question.
How do you see representative democracy working? I may be "fucking stupid" but im genuinely interested in how you think it should/could work?

I didn't answer because I thought that even for you there were enough "real world" examples of "representative democracy" working better than "parliamentary democracy" does, that it wasn't necessary for me to answer, you arse.