Is Liz Truss schmoozing her MPs with meals and drinks subsidised by you and me?
Liz Truss: is the evil Queen of Cheese even capable of charm?
Liz Truss is apparently going on a “charm offensive” (the “offensive” part I can believe, but I have trouble with the “charm” element), wining and dining her backbenchers to win support for her lunatic policies.
But is she charging these meals to the public purse?
Ha!
Truss is going to schmooze her backbenchers by holding a series of lunches.
Seems to me, principles that can be bought off by a free lunch (cost met by taxpayers ?) are pretty questionable principles, or hardly principles at all.— Clare Hepworth OBE (@Hepworthclare) October 10, 2022
Let’s go into that public subsidy element of the scheme in a little more detail, shall we?
It has cost the public purse £17m to subsidise bars and restaurants in the House of Commons over just three years.
No child should go hungry while MPs enjoy cut-price meals.— Paul Delaney (@coaimpaul) October 10, 2022
It seems to This Writer that the cost of any schmoozing by Liz Truss should be met by Liz Truss. I don’t want Tory backbenchers supporting her madness so I don’t see why I should have to pay for it. And it seems I’m not alone…
If we are cutting benefits then let’s start with the subsidised meals in parliament, the daily allowance for attending the House of Lords and the sovereign grant given to the royals.
— Guy Fawkes (@blunted_james) October 10, 2022
It’s clear that the expenses system in Westminster is broken, and has been used to bleed money from the public to our elected representatives for a considerable amount of time. Oh, and also to our unelected representatives, it seems:
The average peer claims £25,800 in expenses every year, but a single person having to get by on Universal Credit will get just £4,020 over the same period of time.
It’s not hard to see where we are going wrong.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) October 10, 2022
No, it isn’t hard to see where we are going wrong.
But how can we put it right when the people taking the cash have such a tight group on how it is controlled?
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
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