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From the BBC news website:


Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson has confirmed the Telegraph's report that he had made a claim of £304.10 for the upkeep of a swimming pool.

But he added: "The pool came with the house and I needed to know how to run it. Once I was shown that one time, there were no more claims. I take care of the pool myself. I believe this represents 'value for money' for the taxpayer."


I'm sure we're all very grateful to Mr Jackson for having our best interests at heart, and giving us such value for money.

Now, where's my guillotine?

head-first wrote:
Now, where's my guillotine?
Surely now is the time for revolution like never before!

head-first wrote:
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson has confirmed the Telegraph's report that he had made a claim of £304.10 for the upkeep of a swimming pool.
The thing Jackson is too witless to realise is that there's no way anything he can say can make it look reasonable.

As soon as people see words like 'swimming pool', 'tennis court', 'chandelier' and - my favourite - 'moat' it says 'vast luxury like you and everyone you know never get', and there's nothing that can convince us it can be 'reasonable' for us to be paying anything towards it.