Lord Bonkers' Diary: Sense on MPs' expenses

a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSp1JiUjOFF2Ex-Da7c_Y6oseXakDWO6GZYMvfj15GzZawdYhVjQvD5pPczzKCDOhIdh0-AjnMJqyGqXlv_0w2EQhkfVttk9fuXsuvIpnBvD0_QGfPnUpR5ad9UZt4mFQSWSrezckxJiLQ/s1600-h/bonkers.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 118px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358013593512775746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSp1JiUjOFF2Ex-Da7c_Y6oseXakDWO6GZYMvfj15GzZawdYhVjQvD5pPczzKCDOhIdh0-AjnMJqyGqXlv_0w2EQhkfVttk9fuXsuvIpnBvD0_QGfPnUpR5ad9UZt4mFQSWSrezckxJiLQ/s200/bonkers.jpg" //aa href="http://www.liberator.org.uk/default.asp"Liberator/a 334 is with subscribers and a href="http://www.libdemvoice.org/new-edition-of-liberator-5-15629.html"Liberal Democrat Voice/a has a summary of this issue's contents.br /div/divbr /divAll of which means it is time to spend another week with Rutland's most celebrated fictional peer./divbr /divstrongMonday/strong/divbr /div/divdivWe Bonkers have never been flippers – though in the Roaring Twenties my daughters were certainly flappers. You will not find me claiming that some wretched basement flat in Pimlico is my principal residence so that I may charge the upkeep of Bonkers Hall to the hard-pressed taxpayer./divbr /div/divdivI do not claim for cleaning out my moat: I clean it out myself. (Or, to be precise, the Well-Behaved Orphans clean it out – the Rutland alligator is not as dangerous as the books make out). Nor do I call upon public funds to house my ducks: they (or at least those who have escaped the attentions of the alligators) are buying their own homes through a thoroughly Liberal housing co-operative./divbr /divAt times like this, I remember the wise words of my old friend Lord Hazlerigg, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, when someone proposed paying allowances to county councillors: “If a man hasn’t the brains to earn his own fare once or twice a month into his county town, I don’t think he’d be much help in administering the spending of a million of money.”/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-1360118290539209684?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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