Best Idea for MPs’ Second Homes Crisis Solution
Guido loves this idea from the Taxpayers’ Alliance on how to solve the problem of MPs’ second homes: house them in the Olympic Village after the Olympics.
There will be a legacy of 3,000 homes after the Olympics, so it would require no new capital. The project has been nationalised already since it failed to attract outside capital, the 572 MPs outside London could be housed there at no extra cost.
As they point out, since the Olympics forms a major terrorist target the Olympic Village will already have been built with security in mind. Housing MPs in a single location will make it easier to arrange a variety of services.
It is also constructed in an ecologically sound fashion and provides a low carbon emissions means of transport connection to Westminster via the Jubilee line tube network that would take only 25 minutes. If it is good enough for Olympians, it is surely good enough for our humble public servants…
Brilliant
The fat ones could also go for a run.
Why should MPs get first dibs on these new homes?
Agreed.
I’d rather see some of the less fortunate and more deserving Londoners moved into the Olympic homes… the MPs can then take over their vacant houses/flats on the sink estates.
Agreed. This idea plays to our outrage at their expenses and the concomitant sense that they deserve somehow to be punished. Putting them all in an encampment together serves that sense. It would be like resuscitating the former punishment of the public ‘stocks’ that were the centrepiece of every village.
If we want to punish the worst of them, we should simply vote them out.
Yeah! Let em squat! There’s always a cardboard box about….
This is a good idea. But more is possible.
Busy MP’s need a short commute
A lot has been made of the need for MP’s to have a home near parliament though — the commute to Westminster seems rather a long ride on the Jubilee line.
Can Mandy help sort things out?
If cleaning up parliament is to be McFuckwit’s legacy, how about making use of Mandy’s too, while we’re at it?
All parliamentary business should be transferred from Westminster to Greenwich, and housed in the Millenium Dome.
But what about the Palace of Westminster?
In recognition of the Prime Minister’s prudence and economic foresight, the Palace could be transformed into a shopping experience that truly represents the economic affluence that abounds in the UK today, giving a global shopfront to vendors such as:
Primark
Lidl
Poundland
Superdrug
Oh the amount of scandal this should generate as 600 odd lonely MP’s live together in one small area. This would be built-in manna from heaven for Guido and the NOTW
Instead of Big Brother on TV we can watch what the MPs get up to using the no doubt state of the art surveillance system.
It is high time that the public increased surveillance of the Government.
The building won’t need to be ecologically sound, if mps live there their production of hot air will suffice.
So long as we can vote em out on a weekly basis….
This was suggested on here first, by me and loads of others (can’t claim to being first though.
Also the river could be used as a secure transport system too, all they need to buy is a couple of rowing boats, to work off that £200 of food a week.
The only problem is it would make a fantastic target for terrorists. I know some of you are reading this and saying that, that is a good thing. But on a serious note, on a night when there is a major debate/vote the following day, that “village” is going to be packed with MPs all in a nice compacted area.
A perfect target to be bombed, especially attractive to someone wanting to test a dirty bomb device.
Here is a good idea – if we stop blowing up them they may stop wanting to blow us up. Not exactly rocket science or kumbaya tree hugginess.
BTW there is no possible way to create a “dirty bomb”. Learn some science before getting panicked by Zanu Labour / Neo Con bull crap.
It gets better by the minute
They are a target already. Do you remember Aire Neave blown up in the underground car park within the boundary of parliament?
The olympic housing stock could be taken over completely and other accomodation rented out to MP staff / researchers for the going market rate. As they are being paid by the puplic purse as well the money will only be recirculated.
We are all targets for terrorists, so we lose a few MP’s just like soldiers there are plenty more to fill their shoes.
And your problem with that is….?
There’s an area packed full of MPs already that could be a target called the Palace of Westminster.
Another point in its favour, surely!
71 … no such thing as a dirty bomb … go on, I’ll bite. I don’t know the quantities, but I do believe in them. They’d hardly be WMD’s but would create panic and terror, and a tiny increase in cancer risks.
Perfect target for tourists too – kind of a cross between Disneyland and a hoon zoo. Visitors could be suitably fleeced to pay for a bit of extra security – shops pay minimum wage for this sort of thing.
and your point is……?!
God knows they couldn’t target the Houses of Parliament. There’d be no bugger in it.
Aren’t there one or two ready made dug outs in Iraq that could be pressed into use?
Surely Brixton Prison would be more suitable?
The Penguin
The old GLC tried schemes like this in the sixties and the areas became sink estates very quickly, it took the police and teams of social workers years to work out, in extreme cases the estates had established such a bad reputation they had to be pulled down. You have to recognise the gang culture already exists with logos and allegiances are already in place. Imagine the problems for example of Kim Howells living next to Ian Duncan Smith, you can make up your own neighbourhood lists. If you watch the Wire it will give you some idea of how things could turn out. I am against the idea but if it does go ahead I would like to be the housing officer responsible for allocations.
Liebor Skins rule
Young Tory Wetbacks
Lib Grass Stains
There would have to be a ‘No Ball Games’ policy
Isn’t that a bit hard on Ms Cooper – or maybe a blessed relief.
I’ve got a better idea: make the freeloading bastards live in the shit-hole accommodation they inflict on the Armed Forces.
I bet it wouldn’t take the 10 years to sort out they’re saying it will.
I left the forces in 1984. They were supposedly sorting out the accomodation back then too. I drove past my old pad in Germany about a year ago. Though no longer under military occupation it didn’t look to have seen so much as a lick of paint in the intervening quarter century.
What’s wrong with Highgate Cemetery? The residents cannot possibly object to the arrival of such of low-life. Who’d want to go next to Karl? – that’s the question.
The obvious place to house MPs is County Hall, directly across the Thames from parliament. The former GLC hq is now a hotel and aquarium.
The aquarium tanks would make perfect homes for bottom-feeding MPs.
Yes! We’ve said this for weeks – We are working for the ODA on various issues and even they think it is a good idea! But would our lovely MP’s? Maybe going back to the good old days of Tudor England wouldn’t be such a mad idea? Ideas people!
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Surely this isn’t a new idea, I’ve heard people talking about this for best part of a couple of years. Built as a secure location and supposedly with great transport links it’s always been an obvious place to house them.
Surely you mean: Peter and Gordon? Some of us lived through life in black and white..
Peter and Gordon: World Without Love (how apt…):
They won’t like travelling on the tube from the East End. They’ll be so noticeable as they won’t fit in at all with the surroundings.
They’re not suggesting subjecting them to the Tube. Shuttle buses with air-conditioning and hot researchers and cold G&T’s would waft our noble leaders in luxurious splendour from Wapping to Westminster.
I say give the f*ckers a condemned block of council flats in Brixton and lets see the bastards flip THOSE off their expenses.
Brixton is too expensive,there are some very nice tower blocks in East Ham currently used by students that could accommodate them.
I’m not so sure about the Olympic Village but in principle the idea is not impractical and not without precedent. There is a system of guest houses for travelling Judiciary.
But you would need to provide rent boy access
Old Compton Street is within commuting distance.
And Kings Cross Staion gives easy access to the runaways.
… and those who prefer to billet elsewhere can pay out of their taxed income … which would make a refreshing change!
Sound.
Agreed. Meanwhile, here’s Independence-for-Scotland-by-the-back-door as the means to keeping the troughers in luxury pig-poo up North.
When Westminster becomes too down at heels with accommodation provided in olympic village style trailer parks, the political class will flock off tae bonnie Scotland!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/06/16/tax-powers-for-scotland-to-arrive-at-the-double-91466-23885131/
We could then call MPs the ‘Village People’
Would be difficult deciding which became the Village Idiot though.
All of them, in the spirit of NuLiebour’s “all must have prizes”.
They should all be called VI’s instead of MPs.
“Y…M…C…A…!!! da da da daa da Y…M…C…A”
Perfect!!!
I would re-open The Tower Of London for most of them…..
Yes: that’s what Traitor’s Gate’s for, isn’t it?
Good idea, though a prison hulk moored near Parliament would save travelling time.
A 650 person gallows would save on travelling time, accommodation costs and expenses as well as providing free public entertainment. It’s a win-win situation.
That’s hardly ecologically sound is it? Think of all the trees you’d have to cut down to make the gallows.
Maybe we could treat them like hanging baskets and save the trees.
You could always put the gallows on wheels like those used in Ireland a number of years ago. Then you could take them arond the constituencies.
“Strawberry Fayre, Tombola, Cream Teas, and Hanging” – tickets available at the Vicarage.
Surely lamposts will serve
They did for the Waffen SS!!!!
Why not just give them all the same amount as Housing Benefit?
Any amounts for subsistence, travel etc. should be paid at the rates HMRC allow the self-employed to claim against tax for the same things.
If they make the laws and the guidelines to say the amounts are good enough for the rest of us, then they are good enough for them, too. It would provide a useful reality check to most MP;s, I suspect!
Ex-cell-ent!
A perfect Plan!
D-phuqing-licious
That’s a good idea. Nice one.
Come now, let’s have some common sense and reason here.
Park caravans in Parliament Square, in the road if necessary. Caravaners have had years of practical experience in blocking roads in my village. Blocking the Westminster village will be a good “learning experience” for our betters.
and take on Mrs Buckett as Consultant! For once there’ll be someone who speaks with first-hand, practical knowledge.
QED
Best idea going – especially as the total budget will be capped next year despite more claiming.
Sound as a pound, perfick……
Good idea.
Be they every so ‘umble servants, as Uriah Heep said (Dickens). Politicians should spend more time living liking voters, and taxpayers. Maybe then they will understand that their actions have consequences beyond the Westminster village, Room 101…everything we fear about crazed power freaks who exempt themselves from life as it is known by those who are creative, honest, decent, and wealth creating…all the things they are NOT.
BTW, Guido, have a heart
! I don’t want to see the ex Mirror pseudo ‘Editor’, the money grubbing creep for anyone who would pay him Piers the Ponce, exposing his pout and air brushed paunch to public view. Morgan the vain moron, true to himself. Yuk.
I’m glad they covered the security angle.
You wouldn’t want that lot getting out at night – it would be like Resident Evil.
Great idea; sensible , practical, money saving…..errr which is why it will never see the light of day and what a tempting target it would be, any underground culverts under the Olympic Village?
Well I welcome it. 3,000 homes for 650 MPs, that’s about 4 each isn’t it?
Nothing like a good rental income. its a flippin’ paradise too.
I believe that’s called “revenue neutral” in the trade!
I do think each MP should have to run around the olympic track every 6 months and beat their personal best in order to earn their second house! Healthy body healthy mind and all that. Might also wear them out and shut them up for a while!!
That would be against their human rights poor things
Human Right Crap has to go too. Only fair.
Isn’t Bedlam still available?
It would be a gross insult to the Olympians but apart from that, this idea might just fly.
I’m sure the building of guard towers and a stockade wouldn’t be too much of a problem either.
I was drinking a pint of Wye Valley ale with a mate the other day who pointed out that in some countries each constituency has a flat/apartment in a block where the MP lives. There are allocations of furniture, etc., any damage found when the MP leaves (Purnell, are you reading this??) would be charged against the former MP.
Good morning,one and all,to the unshackled and unbiased site with no axe to grind. Not content with ignoring the flipping of mansions by the boy Gideon,Guido has today failed to comment on Cameron’s hilarious ‘ALLO ‘ALLO moment in Norwich. Don’t worry, I’m sure he will be quick to pounce on their next little jape!!
The axe will be buried–in ZaNulabs skull
Piss off troll
scared of a little balance being lobbed onto your site,and resorting to abuse. Ah,the true colours of your type don’t take long to show. Boo-hoo,I’m gonna tell my mum….
yeah, we’re petrified. Now go and do your homework or you’ll never pass those ever so difficult gcse’s.
Vot iz your name? Vot is your number?
I sink I like you.
piers piers……. Didn’t you score at gay skinhead night down at the Buggers Nutters and Perverts?
Hello Ambrose
Yeah yeah yeah!
He was trying to pour scorn on the newlabour ID card scheme, how to set up a dictatorship made easy by a crooked psuedo socialist elite sitting in a corrupt parliament.
In fact if ID cards are brought in then any jobsworth bullyboy can snarl the feared words ‘where are your papers?’ and if you dont have the correct papers then you can be dragged away!
Bio metric data on a card? Do you not carry that around with you anyway?
Well said.
We are who we are and can prove our being. Maybe we don’t exist? Where is a philosopher when you need one, ‘Break Glass When Needed’ needed.
Take zat man’s name.
Don’t tell him your name, Pike!
The Penguin
Vi ask ze questions.
No! They should be made to live in the special Olympics village where all the beds smell of pee and there are bab stains on the mattresses.
You’re obviously a b&p supporter
It is a well known fact that all Olympic Villages become knocking shops when Olympians have passed their completion climaxes and so it would be for MPs. Except it carries on for about 4 years after MPs being voted in completion climaxes.
Oh hum.
Sorry but forced to go O/T
A long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war will hear evidence in private, the Prime Minister has confirmed.
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Sorry NOT acceptable. END OFF.
The outcome will be no one in Government has done anything wrong.
FFS!!!!!
Brown could just say that to save public money in difficult times he will cancel the year long investigation and just announce the result of the inquiry tomorrow.
No one did any thing wrong
no lessons have been learned
Then he will get a jumbo Bic chisel marker and draw a thick red line under the word Iraq. A policeman will be stationed by the board with the word Iraq written on it, directing passers by to “Move along..nothing to see here..move along please..”
Those who complain that the results of the inquiry will be a whitewash are living under delusion.
It is thorough, beyond criticism and apportions blame correctly.
I should know – Gordon has let me see the final draft already!
No need for enquirey behind closed doors: informationclearinghouse.info
Will someone leak the uncensored version?
There are bound to be a number of CDs involved in the evidence.
Digital security has never been a strength within the Labour Party.
Maybe Mr Malik will redeem himself by leaking it to the “Brothers”?
No, but they will have learnt lessons.
Brilliant, but, there will have to be all sorts of ‘extras’ to install so there will be additional costs. They should also put a big brother ‘security’ camera in each room!
a very good idea
Never happen though, I mean to say, how are these MP’s supposed to become rich if they cannot fiddle their experiences!
even IF (big if) it was considered they’ll tell us they couldn’t because of security concerns (even though, like Guido’s said it was designed with security in mind) means they cannot house all the MP’s in one area.
more truthfully it is the fiddles that need to be safeguarded and the site is not tin the ‘right’ area — they do have their standards you know!!!!!
They all “work” in one area, have offices in Houses of Parliament or it’s luxury new annexe. So why should they not all have London Accommodation in one place?
Besides it might focus their attention on getting the fucking terrorist threat sorted out properly!
The Penguin
that should read ‘in’ not ‘tin’ ….sorry
Dear All
Guido’s suggestion (or rather, confessed plagiarism from the right-wing extremist Taxpayer Alliance) would be more fitting if instead of the Olympians’ quarters we domiciled them in prison!
Ha! There would then by many dozens of Tory MPs sharing cells with large, hirsute and brutish inmates.
I wonder whether the pasty and foppish George “Old Eton Boy” Osborne would ever be able to leave solitary confinement for his own safety! Ha!
Meanwhile, up here polls are intimating that the SNP, with their splendid array of terribly nice candidates and common-sense proposals, threaten to unseat many Nu Labour MPs at the next election.
Hooray!
Matters are certain to improve with Britain’s wisest bevy of thinkers and statesmen at the helm.
Belief in current Tory ‘popularity’ is meaningless pap as all Britons know they are not in tune with the needs of the community.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
you seem to know a deal about the inside of prisons. your dad a regular there?
Glasgow University. Isn’t that a contradiction in two words? OK. You win. Brevity is impressive.
Dear Tory
I wonder why you chose the nom de plume of “whatever…”.
Is that a tacit admission of a vacant, brown-nosing and subservient mind?
Ha!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Maybe it’s because I despise pseuds like you.
Go off and do something useful, like teaching the good burghers of Glasgow East how how to plan meals and eat a balanced diet on a budget. After 50 years of rule by the Scottish Labour Party, ask why life expectancies in parts of Glasgow are lower than those of Basra. Bet none of the Human Rights Lobby at Glasgow University have ventured to Easterhouse, and done anything useful.
They’d get eaten by the natives.
Of course there are three very sound reasons not to keep MPs in prison:
i) They are likely to be a bad influence on other inmates
ii) Prisons are actually rather expensive places to keep people.
iii) Once MPs are familiar with the cushy lifestyle in HM prisons, nothing will deter them from the egregious theft and gerrymandering they went into politics for.
I understand there are a number of suitable accommodations available under London viaducts, though in the current economic climate competition for these is becoming rather fierce. Underneath the arches…
Did somebody say gerrymandering?
reminds me of a certain ex-Dame Shirley platform Porter whose flat in London, following departure to Israel and unpaid fine of millions, contained nothing more than a gold-plated toilet seat and a rather vain self portrait.
mind you, money well spent… given the painting’s subject, perhaps the loo seat could have made a good picture frame!
Bloody Cow moved some of my relatives into “Asbestos Towers” whilst she was at it.
She should have been thrown out of the party – but on second thoughts – she should have been thrown out of the window.
For a university educated person you come across a bit retarded in the political awareness stakes my nationalist friend.
A Tory victory in England will certainly mean an independent Scotland within one Tory term, the SNP actually desire a Tory win south of the border, even the SNP realise they will be more honest and direct and the majority of the English now demand an English parliament and if you had thought out your post properly you may have deduced that with an English parliament and and SNP majority the independence you seek will be almost certain.
Perhaps you need to explore beyond your ‘braveheart’ prejudice a little to see the bigger picture?
Soon you Jock Huhne you can do what you want. Never mind the Barnet formula, we will take back all the unaccounted for benefits – no more ‘sweaties’ answering my phone calls to the tax man.
How many jobs in Scotland are servicing the real earners in England? Think about it you sponge.
Scotland is just a deep money-pit that only ‘sweaties’ think needs filling. You say it is your oil, fight us for it.
PS you do have a bit of the British army, but again only to give you jobs. I think we will have them back as well
Most of the oil belongs to the Shetland Islands who never see themselves as Scots. Most of the gas lies in the Southern North Sea ie in “English” waters. A surprising amount of oil lies south of the “border” if you extrapolate the border which runs in a North eastern diagonal direction.
“Scottish” oil is an urban myth.
I believe the Shetland Islands were given to the British Crown by the King of Norway and have never formed a part of Scotland
Can we send Alex Ferguson back ?
100 kg of lard in return for all the oil they have given us?
Doctor Mick
if we make it 200kg by adding Lorraine Kelly it sounds like a good deal
Add a few deep-fried Mars bars and it’s a deal
I am NOT a “Briton”, I was born English, and that is the way I am staying. Funny how we have “Scottish”, “Welsh” and “Irish” but “British” for the rest.
Scottish Parliament, Irish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, and English …..????
All together now – ENGLISH !!!
…yes, funny, isn’t it: Browning didn’t write
‘Oh, to be in Britain, now that April’s there…’
Deanna Durbin didn’t sing,
‘There’ll always be a Britain’
Ivor Novello didn’t promise that we should gather lilacs
‘…down a British lane’,
nor did Chesterton write,
‘…We are the people of Britain, and we have not spoken yet.’
Why shouldn’t the English be allowed to be ENGLISH? Is is ‘because we is white-ish’?
George I think your work is splendid. I fully support the idea that those attending Glasgow University are in fact mostly human and therefore deserve human rights. Pray tell what horrific abuses do the University perpetrate??
G, methinks you repeat your dislike of george osborne too much. I get the message, you’re secretly in love with him. Ha!
There is the added bonus that when the House of Commons comprises 20 or 30% muslims as predicted by Shithead Malik inshallah they will be able to go to Friday prayers at the giant mosque being built next door. Allan be praised.
“Allan be praised.”
That’s v funny……. nice to go out in the morning with a happy smile on ones face.
Not bad. If there are any dwellings left over then bung in the Mayor of London’s staff [ upper mngnt ] and all the journalists who live in N.London. Give them a folding Brompton for free and tell them, ‘on yer bike’.
It would need one of those Hitachi giant screens – MPs seem to like big panel TV sets to fit their bulbous features when interviewed – Shahid Kaufman
The Human Rights in Glasgow, right to a heart attack by the age of 50; right to a coffin by age 55. For a one party state, the record’s not good for Labour up there.
Sadly enough, they are so fucking stupid and share so few chromosomes that they think it is their patriotic tribal duty to vote for whatever Huhne NuLiebore tell them to.
The Penguin
“What a good idea ! I’m enjoying this ! I’m enjoying this !”
Can’t see it happening. Some deal will be worked out with a big annoucement
and a “technology” college or “green centre” will occupy the site. The only place where the MPs could be housed is the old County Hall.Makes more sense to buy it back from the current hotel group……….
Iraq enquiry is a Brown wash
i need a 20p coin because i need to do a little ginger poo in the the public toliets
Don’t forget to see if you can negotiate the hire of a cottage whilst you are there.
The Penguin
It’s such a good idea and so full of commonsense that it will never happen.
No. Scrap the Home Office and put them in the 4-acre site on Marsham Street. There’s still time to scrap the Olympics and give the land back to those who were expropriated.
Buying MPs accommodation involves a high outlay of capital of some £ 165 million (circa 550 apartments x say £300,000) and would require a large janitorial staff et al to supervise repair and maintenance.
The capital outlay would never be recouped since the properties would be needed in perpetuity (absent withdrawing the accommodation provision). Accordingly, the capital uplift from rising property prices would not be available to the state.
Easier, more convenient and cheaper to oblige MPs to continue to arrange their own accommodation. If a flat rate allowance were given, the administrative burden and cost of the Fees Office would be very considerably reduced.
I agree this is the common sense solution. Barracks solution won’t be suitable because some people have different family set ups. Many of them are MPs for years – it’s not like the occassional business trip.
Why do they have to be ‘MPs for years’?
Why not a two-term limit? It would minimise the troughing and get rid of ‘career’ politicians.
No, not flat rate. Their main job is in London and they should be paid a salary commensurate with that. They should get a variable rate allowance based on travel to and from their constituency and the cost of accommodation in their constituency.
Ideally, the whole pay, office cost, pension, travel and accommodation cost should be turned in to a lump sum and paid to MPs as a consultancy “fee”. They will then be self-employed and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs can rule over what is and is not allowable as expenses, rather than having yet another quango decide.
The problem with lump sum expenses is that they are a disincentive to spend. By travelling less and employing cheaper assistants, if any, then you keep a wider “profit” margin on your lump sum fee.
The flats would not cost market rate, not unless the government wanted to make a profit out of it’s self!! If blocks of flats at not the answer for MPs, why are they the answer for Nurses, Soldiers – single and married quarters etc?
Of course it is cheaper to house all of the MPs in one block rather than pay market rate for private rental agreements; are you fucking stupid or what?!?
HMG has the opportunity to do what in wants in the respect that the value of the property depends on the land, they can, if they wish, decide what land can or cannot be built on and can therefore build on ‘cheap’ land – ignoring planning consent.
Regardless. FUCK OFF LABOUR C U N T S!!!!! GENERAL ELECTION NOW!!!!
The cost of the flats would be market rate in any event. If flats were transfered within the State’s accounts “free” to parliament, the cost would be the income foregone from otherwise selling them in the open market. That is still a cost!
Additionally, all the risks and hence costs of ownership would, clearly, rest with the State: if MPs made their own arrangements, the risks and costs rest with them and by no means all of those would be available for reimbursement. Consider also the costly administrative burden of servicing 550 properties, albeit co-located.
Married quarters etc. are typically a cost burden forced on the State by want of any practical alternative. For many years now, armed forces personnel have been encouraged to make their own arrangments to thereby reduce this burden. There are alternatives so far as MPs are concerned.
There cannot be many (and likely no acceptable) sites in central London offering “cheap” land through gerrymandering planning consents. In any case, there is also an opportunity cost with regard to such a manoeuvre, in addition to its questionable ethics.
Then soldiers should have the right to claim for second homes if we were to follow your logic. Why don’t they have that right?
Why do we have old peoples’ homes rather than just letting them live in their own homes to be cared for?
Why are you being so silly?!? Just admit your argument is wrong. MPs would be cheaper if housed in state accommodation.
Why not nationalise thier existing second homes ( we have paid for them anyway ) and keep them for future use by MP’s.
Too good for them. You are however correct, gives them less chance to fiddle, those Honorable Gents and Ladies.
Why not give them a reasonable flat salary, no expenses? They’ve shown they can’t be trusted. If they don’t want the job then fine – someone else will take it.
If it is less fair on those living well away form London, well too bad. Salaries are generally lower the further you travel from London anyway. There are not many jobs like that in Grimsby or SHuhnehorpe – there’ll be plenty of takers.
Exactly Dr. They knew what they where taking on when they took the job. The rest of us have to like it or lump it; so should they. If they think it is better elsewhere then they should fuck-off and get the other job.
Attention Admin
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PLEASE REMOVE PIERS MORGAN’S HORRENDOUS POUTING MUSH.
IF THE INTENTION IS TO FRIGHTEN OFF THE TROLLS I’M SURE IT HAS WORKED BUT THERE’S A DANGER OF THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER.
Seconded.
Too revolting for words.
I don’t want to know what he is selling and have no interest in looking at pictures of men without any clothes.
it is disgusting……………….
Classic!
Face like a pig – goes with his brain!
Perhaps we should get architectural luvvy Lord Rogers to give the the flats a make over
He’s currently bleating Prince Charles has overstepped the mark by stopping him turning London into Houston
Just read that. They are a precious bunch of luvvies.
Loved Charlie’s dig at the modern architectural profession. “You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe. When it knocked down our buildings, it didn’t replace them with anything more offensive than rubble.”
HRH – 2, RIBA – 0!
This is Bollocks!
MPs may be less favourably regarded than Estate Agents, but this is the equivalent of putting them in the stocks and throwing rotten fruit at them.
Their main job is in London, representing their constituents’ interests in Parliament and they deserve to be paid a decent salary to do that and from that salary, to buy their own home – in London. They are in Parliament 35 weeks a year, more if they are committee chairs or ministers.
AND they should get expenses for their second homes in their constituencies so they can do their job there over the weekends and in recess.
Dedicating the Athlete’s Village as an MP “hostel” would mean we don’t get the money back we have paid for it and would isolate MPs further from real people.
No, this is a cheap PR stunt.
Why not allow them expenses as per the rest of the population, using the allowences permitted by the HMRC,nothing special about MP’s working away from home as thousands of people do it,think of builders working on one site for a year or so.
Ps if they think the salary is enough for the job they do,easy soloution go and find another one elsewhere millions do that,the work they do is supposed to be for the public interest and not a professional lively hood that we owe these people because they go more votes than someone else,let them take it or leave it.
Correct – it is a cheap PR stunt, seems to me it deflects people from the one real cure that is needed – a General Election !
This is the only way we have a chance to rid ourselves of this current Parliament and in the process consign the one-eyed snotgobbler and his Zanuliebour party to the political wilderness for many, many years.
this is the equivalent of putting them in the stocks and throwing rotten fruit at them.
And your problem with this is?
…ealft & saftey, mate: people might sprain their throwing-arms!
I would say that £65’000 is a good salary for someone that id completely unqualified. What qualities do they need apart from party approval?
Is the defence secretary a military man? any ambassador a diplomat?
Jobs for the boys/girls!!
Angry? You fucking bet!!! Just think of the Kinnock wankers!!!
It would need to be set up as a separate Borough and have a distinctive name – how about Barnville?
Nice farmyard connotations; shouldn’t get confused with Barnet and will prove to be a constant reminder to future generations of the need for the public to retain control over our MP’s and their excesses.
It’s a shame that Swindon (which used to caleed Swinedon) is already taken.
(which used to caleed Swinedon)
Let’s try, ‘(which used to be called Swinedon)!
How about using Slough and adopting John Betjeman as the patron saint of MPs?
Make it so …
Now if only they could make rubber-stamping an Olympic sport …
I believe it is – but they renamed it gymnastics.
There is already capacious accommodation very near to the Houses of Parliament which could provide shelter for the MPs at little public expense. I think it is called the North Embankment Main Sewer.
Not fair on the indigenous rats.
Can’t agree Guido.
These spongers only need overnight accom 4 nights per week. The cheapest B & B will do, NOTHING MORE!!!!
Don’t they all have offices in HP? Give them a camp bed and sleeping bag each, that’ll do.
Better still, move Parliament to the Olympic Village too. The Palace of Westminster is a lovely landmark but a horrible building inside. If MPs moved somewhere less depressing and more efficient it might improve their morale and attitude.
Surely our experience in concentrating thieves and benefit junkies on sink estates suggests that this is a bad idea.
Battersea dogs home, rehouse the dogs in the olympic village
Now I am confused – I thought the proposal was to rehouse the dogs (Widdi, Ann Milton, Harpic, Jockey) in the Olympic Village.
Got to see this.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-makes-arse-of-new-thing-200906151828/
Anyone know who’s Chancellor of the Exchequer today – Balls is very quiet
Mr Ballsdrick is apparently working on the new economic policy – the purchase of a partciularly large turnip.
Random thought: if this is a Zombie Government and a zombie is a dead person animated by an evil spirit, that evil spirit must be Mandelson, the Lord High Everything Else.
Let’s house them at Highgate then – the cemetary I mean…………….
Leave the EU. Transfer power back to the Queen. Sack all MPs. Hence no need for any MPs’ second homes.
I am not a bee or worker ant.
The country/economy works perfectly well when parliament is closed for school holidays so why not just close it permanently. If my memory serves me right, Israel had no government for about 6 months and the economy massively improved only to fall back again when a new government was appointed.
In the spirit of cross-party cooperation, I have spoken to Sir Anthony Steen and other prominent backbenchers, and I have to say we cannot envisage this plan working. Travel across London on the ‘Tube’ or by bus would expose us to all sorts of hazards, from swine flu, terrorism, men, unwashed poor people, anti-political elements such as Guido Fawkes or hapless wandering tourists asking for directions.
As parliamentarians, surely it is better that we spend our time working on your behalf in Westminster rather than travelling through remote parts of East London.
However, a possible solution might be to commission a special underground railway (first class only) linking the village with the Houses of Parliament. I will therefore set up a commission of experts to look into this matter, reporting back to me in due course, but no earlier than after the third London Olympics.
Or we could repurpose the swimming pool complex as a new main chanmber. That way if you do anything stupid, we could turn on the taps and flush you all away
Politician is an old English word for whore. So they are right at home in the whore house that is Parliament.
Perhaps Aiden Idea-Once would like to read THIS?
Yes, there’s more infighting, more drama and more claptrap from Labour! Balls, Toynbee, Brown all are at it.
Sounds like another idea of joined up government. Why can’t we think like that?
It is also very apt. Too expensive, not wanted, and an embarrassment. Doing immense damage to everything around. Only good thing is that terrorists could be attracted to deal with the problem.
Guido,
Will you please take that picture of that British troop hating Hoon Piers Morgan off the site.
I do not like feeling the rush of impending violence coursing through my veins this early in the morning.
Thank you
As for the MPS housing crisis, surely most of the male ones would be happy with a tent on Clapham Common?.
And the women could all stay with their “sisters” in the spare attic room.
Haven’t you all forgotten a serious problem here.
All those horny (yuk) femail MP’s living in close proximity, along with the likes of Manlebum and his mates ( more yuk), inbreeding would result in a genetic freak pool within a generation that would result in a far worse situation that was portrade in the film THE HILLS HAVE EYES.
Or even worse, like some of the remote villages in Scotland and Wales
BE WARNED!!!!!!
You make a very sound point. To maintain the theme we really should either ban the Buggers Nutters and Perverts or insist on their castration. The consequences of their being allowed to breed is too horrendous to contemplate.
As an alternative to the Olympic Village why not confiscate all of the property holdings in Mayfair of the Duke of Westminster and use it to house the MPs. Much more convenient for parliament, will cut down on the undeclared troughing by his Tory chums and has the added benefit of causing an outbreak of apoplexy in the aristocracy. To be even handed I would suggest similar confiscation of property from socialists – but noone wants to own the North of England.
Of course some MPs are more easily accomodated in London than others. I am pretty sure Oik Osborne will always be welcome to stay overnight at the Colombian Embassy.
Without wishing to appear big-headed I thought of this sometime ago – the travelling time is excellent and the effect on the local economy / local culture should be beneficial – “Little Westminster”
MPs can take up the offer – or pay for their own board & lodgings
Security works both ways !
Additionally I can’t help feeling that – ‘technology’ has a greater part to play in the debating / voting process – how often is the Chamber almost empty and then when it comes to voting – it fills up?
Piping the ‘online real time’ Westminster system to Little Westminster would be a doddle – with a substantial benefit / spin-off for democracy in terms of public access and MP accountability.
This revised (remote) voting capability would also enable MPs to vote even if they were in their constituencies – God forbid!
Lance D Boyle
Founder of the HUMANITAS Party
regd with the Elect Commission –
but ceased to ‘trade’ due to redtape –
most of which the bigger parties ignored or performed late!
But how will they fiddle their mortgages or expenses?
The more adroit have already shown they way: it is not necessary to actually have a mortgage to claim for one.
And for anyone else who thinks this is a brilliant idea:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/MP2ndHome/
Hilarious and everything, but is the Olympic village built with families in mind? I’ve no idea but I wouldn’t have thought so…
Why on earth do MPs need to have their families in their second home? Isn’t that what their first home is for?
A mistress should be quite sufficient for their second home.
They all have offices in the Commons. One cheap futon or camp bed (as one MP has started using) per MP. And the 3000 homes can go to 3000 needy people.
Interestingly, given that Chelsea Barracks was the only place in C London that a large helicopter (e.g., Chinook) could land, it’s long been my contention that Chelsea Barracks should have remained a barracks and the single-man rooms be turned into MP accomodation.
Even keep the mess and the slop-jockeys.
There’s room in my rectum for one.
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