IT had been proposed that MPs would receive an allowance for turning up at the House of Commons.
Given the state of the economy brought about mainly by the incompetence of many of them, perhaps it would be beneficial to the country to pay them an allowance to stay at home.
Tony Anchors Drake Avenue Didcot
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