Summary
WHEN the House of Commons' original sitting times were arranged for a 2.30pm start, it was unblushingly stated that this would give working members a reasonable amount of time with the other day job. City folks could drop in to their offices, lawyers could fit in a client or three and there would be space aplenty for a decent lunch before turning up late afternoon to catch a f lavour of the debate of the day.
When voters demurred that they weren't sending folk to London to use the Commons as a drop-in centre, especially not on that salary scale and those expenses, somebody would solemnly intone that it was essential in a mature democracy that elected representatives kept in touch with the outside world the better to inform their decision making.See the full content of this document
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Can Holyrood Moonlighters Really Justify a Second Job?
The outside world in question, oddly, rarely involved steel works, classrooms, or stacking shelves in Tesco. Only those on eye- watering external fees, seemed to feel the need to mingle with the similarly wellendowed.
Some of that lucrative amateurism survives at Westminster despite attempts to haul the h...See the full content of this document
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