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Makes my heart bleeds for Members of Parliament
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Samantha | Report | 12 Aug 2014 17:39 |
SW10 aka Chelsea in my case. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 12 Aug 2014 17:29 |
Here we are SW10 aka West Brompton |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 12 Aug 2014 17:23 |
one does indeed |
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Samantha | Report | 12 Aug 2014 17:07 |
I have no idea why one has to quote SW10, |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 12 Aug 2014 15:55 |
Rambling Rose - I moved down here in 1988 to a place called Hayes just a few miles from Bromley town centre, back then, before I bought a town house in the area, I rented a 3 bedroom semi-detached house situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, dining room, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, and a through lounge with French doors onto the patio and large rear garden, the garden backed on to the golf course - £600 per calendar month was my rent back then :-) |
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Dermot | Report | 12 Aug 2014 15:27 |
Goodbye Minister & may your feet go with you! |
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Rambling | Report | 12 Aug 2014 15:25 |
I was thinking of one of the SE postcodes where a friend lives OFITG, 'silly money' to rent, but certainly not outside what could be afforded. for instance there is a 3 bedroomed house near where my friend lives £2100 per cal month. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 12 Aug 2014 15:11 |
Rambling Rose - there are many MP's who live in the Home Counties, including several government ministers, they manage to travel to Central London from where they live, personally I see no reason why any junior minister or ordinary MP needs to live in Central London. |
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Rambling | Report | 12 Aug 2014 12:54 |
I don't see why he has to live in an SW postcode Rollo? How many people have the luxury of living that close to work? under an hour commute is reasonable, and that covers postcodes he could afford, but of course it might not give him the type of property he wants... the same is true for many people who work in London. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 12 Aug 2014 12:26 |
RolloTheRed - I will ignore your disparaging comments about me, for your information OFITG does not live on another planet nor is he extremely ill informed about the cost of living anywhere in London. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:44 |
To make things even more difficult for him to make ends meet, six months after he became the MP for Boston and Skegness in 2001, he bought a large house in Putney, South London, for £650,000, and from 2001 to 2009, the mortgage interest was paid by the taxpayer - during that period it is estimated that he claimed nearly £2,000 a month to cover the the mortgage. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:31 |
I believe that from his wages he has to pay any office staff he employs, so the 25.000 he could be paying his wife would some out of his wages. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:24 |
Strange that you've all picked up on the costs. The way i'd read it was that he didn't want to relocate his family to London, but still wanted to spend more time with them while the children were still young. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:12 |
poor man - if anyone would like to contribute to a fund for him I'll be willing to co-ordinate it - it's the least we can do - don't know how I'll sleep tonight with all the worry |
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Von | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:11 |
Rollo |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 12 Aug 2014 11:04 |
do you think we should have a whip round for this poor MP |
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Dermot | Report | 12 Aug 2014 10:55 |
It is easy to make an alternative point without being disrespectful to other contributors to the thread. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 12 Aug 2014 10:50 |
MPs and ministers are elected to represent their constituency in parliament. They cannot do that properly commuting back and forth to a constituency hours away neither is it practical from a bedsit in Morden. They need to be living fairly close to Parliament. As they are not guests of HMP it seems reasonable that their families should be with them. |
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Dermot | Report | 12 Aug 2014 10:27 |
Some posh families groan under the weight of privilege. |
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Von | Report | 12 Aug 2014 10:23 |
Just shows how out of touch they are. |