MP expenses
May. 14th, 2009 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperTurns out neither of the Reading MPs claimed expenses for a second home. Neither did the MPs for Newbury, Slough, Windsor or Guildford.
I'm of the mind it's not a case of they're less corrupt, it's more ... hi do I put this. these are all commuter towns for london. You're used to getting on the train every morning and evening, the trains run until about 1am, and you have no real desire to stay in London over night because you get focussed on the fact that you can get home and collapse in your bed in about an hour from Paddington.
I'm of the mind it's not a case of they're less corrupt, it's more ... hi do I put this. these are all commuter towns for london. You're used to getting on the train every morning and evening, the trains run until about 1am, and you have no real desire to stay in London over night because you get focussed on the fact that you can get home and collapse in your bed in about an hour from Paddington.
