I see on the news tonight that MP's want more expences for their second homes.?

[Lord Worthy of Knotso]

Are they just not being greedy, they don't pay the full price for the house(they can claim the interest), get it done up at taxpayers expence. And if sell it get all the profit, while a working man pays it all himself. And how does a pagoda and plants help an MP do their job, and if they want to see the parliment programme why don't they get freeview , instead of claiming for Sky subscribtion.

[selina.evans]

His nibs does not seem to realise that the government has a few M.P.s in it..and what is wore is that these are the ones who are in power! The same ones who are asking everyone else to show restraint and not ask for more than a couple of percent pay rises. If they mean to allow us all £40,000 to pat for second homes then by all means..otherwise they can take a running jump!
What the government ought to do is to purchase a hotel just outside of london, nothing too expensive, and allow M.P.s to stay there free of charge when they are sitting in Parliament..then the hotel would still belong to the country for the next group of free loaders to take advantage of instead of them walking away with the goods.