‘It’s a disgrace’ – Labour MP slammed for charging taxpayers £900 ‘pet rent’ for dog to live with her in London home

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1. Labour and the Tories are the same.

   We need new anti corruption party.

   At this point I think we missed the opportunity of a generation not electing Jeremy Corbyn.

2. £18 a week rent surcharge for pets in the flat is minor. Couldn’t care less.

3. £900 a year? Don’t like it but don’t really care.

   This is a headline. Meanwhile tens of £billions went missing for Track & Trace, PPE contracts and all sorts of schemes during Covid, barely mentioned.

   A pack of Labour MPs could invade my home, punch me in the jaw and piss in my bed and I’d *still* feel less pissed on than by the Conservatives.

4. Rage bait. Negligible expense and I’m glad she can live with her dog.

5. What’s with all the headlines about people being ‘SLAMMED for’ something?

6. Honestly. Of all the “scandals” we should care about? This is not  one

   But MPs should be given a salary, a daily stipend for discretionary spend, and everything else is on them

   Cap the combo of those two 

   Stop second jobs, incomes and post – parliamentary consulting and ensure that the government works for the electorate and we’d all be better off 

7. Nothing like having doors scratched and the like, unfortunately not all dogs are raised to be well behaved. Also you always have the pup window when they chew on everything going, id say the landlord is just hedging their bets on damage. When i bought my place the last person in was a renter, the dog was very well behaved but still dog hair in every nook going. months later i was still finding dog hair is odd places.

8. The disgrace is her landlord charging her pet rent not the fact she claimed it back, out of all the outrageous stuff MPs have claimed for (duck island etc), this is nothing

9. I mean.. that doesn’t seem like an absolute necessity but is this news supposed to distract us from the £8bn written off by the _other party_ in COVID fraud for their mates?

10. Shocked and appalled on behalf of all 37,500,000 odd tax payers. She should be made to return every penny.

    I eagerly await my cheque for 0.000024p in the post.

    And it best have a 1st class stamp.

    /s

11. “controversial plans to cut £5 billion in disability benefits.” This is the disgrace, even if they lived in a hostel

12. “Slammed” yeah sure she was 

    I doubt this story will go far as ultimately most people will give a dog a free pass

13. Nine hundred here vs hundreds of millions in the PPE scandal. Highlight the grift at all scales, **for all MPs**.

14. £900/year.

    I bet the simple reporting of this story (journalist salaries, reader’s time) has probably cost ten or even a hundred times that.

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