Mps Working At Home

[maggiebee]

Please tell me this isn't true - have just read that MPs will receive an extra £10,000 for working at home. Apologies if this has been posted before but this is the first time I have read it. My question is why?

[dannyk13]

Expenses?

[fiction-factory]

They can claim up to £10000 in expenses but presumably their claims would need to be supported and authorised.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/mps-given-10000-extra-to-help-them-work-from-home-during-coronavirus-outbreak

Seems generous- mrs FF is enjoying it and has no intention of claiming the £6 a week expenses allowance that HMRC allows since it's saving far more in travel time, smart work clothes, lunches etc

[maggiebee]

Expenses I can understand but 10 grand?

[weecalf]

Other workers if lucky will get 80% of their wages .Cant be said Britain does not like her wee MPs

[maggiebee]

Thanks for that link FF.

[fiction-factory]

>Other workers if lucky will get 80% of their wages .
That's if they are not working at all while furloughed. Those I know seem quite happy to get 80% with no travel costs, work to plan, hassle

£10000 does seem high although of course it's for their team- most have assistants/researchers , will need extra phones/laptops/printers; maybe a desk. I'd have thought £1000 would be enough though. Most I know forced to work from home have had to buy own chairs, pay phone bills, use home broadband, own printer cartridges etc

[ToraToraTora]

damn savages should be thrashed to within an inch of their lives!

[MallyJ]

Because they are far more important than everyone else in the UK .... including NHS workers...

[gulliver1]

Thatchers Legacy, this is just what she would have wanted ,look after the Wealthy, and Cobblers to the Working Class.

[fiction-factory]

No doubt the Labour MPs will refuse to claim eh gulliver

[dannyk13]

Gulliver, Don't forget that some of those working at home will be Labour MP's.

[ladybirder]

Dear God was she to blame for the WW1 as well?

[EdmundD]

According to the BBC this is on top of the £26,000 they are already entitled to claim for office costs.

[gulliver1]

Let's tell the Truth , Thatcher hated the Working Class .and well you all know it.

[TonyV]

They cannot travel or keep recommended self exclusion zone in HOC, what do you expect them to do?

[fiction-factory]

Well enough of the working class didn't agree with you as she kept winning elections

[Deskdiary]

Thatcher hated the working class so much she enabled them to become homeowners through RTB when many/most would never have had the opportunity to be a homeowner.

She also inspired the aspirational working class to better themselves.

What an evil bicht.

[naomi24]

And never forget gulliver it was Gordon Brown who abolished the low rate tax for low paid workers - and rifled the working man’s pension pot to boot!! Yes, Labour loves the workers!!

[ladybirder]

Day in day out, whatever the subject, Gulliver manages to change it to Thatcher, Boris, used to be Farage but rarely ever answers the actual question. And yet the posts are allowed to stay.

[Bobbisox1]

I’m working class,I don’t think she hated me, in fact her parents owned a corner shop, working class ?