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We all remember the recent expenses scandal; the disgusting misuse of public money by the people we are supposed to be able to trust.  Well, according to Sir Thomas Legg’s new insights into MPs’ spending; garden furniture is amongst one of the many things MPs claimed for in their Additional Cost Allowance – designed to reimburse them for the costs of running a second home.  According to the Department of Finance and Administration’s Green Book, these expenses must be “wholly, exclusively and necessarily” incurred to enable the MP to stay away from their main home for a night.

You don’t need to be a professional to realise patio furnishings are most definitely not a necessity when it comes to staying away from home for a night.  Not unless you are a tramp anyway – in which case garden furniture is probably your main home in the first place and you’d be lucky to find yourself running the country.  It may seem like a silly point to make, but think about it; there are thousands of people who can’t afford a house, yet MPs were claiming back money they spent putting garden furniture in the gardens of their extra houses!  Houses they are only allowed to own so they can make it to parliament and such other meetings of the damned!  Why are we not in the streets right now, overthrowing these people?!