"It seems perfectly reasonable to me that people who are required to maintain two homes should be subsidised to do so. It seems perfectly reasonable that maintenance and furnishing of said homes should be allowed. Probably this should be rental only or funded such that big profits aren't allowed. Much of the anger seems to be directed beyond moral failings and towards the idea that "these people" should be subsidised at all." the first paragraph is absolutely spot on...the 2nd paragraph looks like your opinion I haven't seen that much of that? Actually, I did hope that the vast majority of the people who were meant to represent us, set and uphold our laws had some kind of compass on what was and wasn't acceptable however grey their system.....as I've said before, I don't buy into this 'everyone's at it' bit anyway, I know loads of people who work hard on shitty money, pay taxes, don't get bonuses or expense accounts and don't expect their money to be spent on moats, manure, etc and don't expect their MPs do go through loopholes to avoid paying tax on their subsisdised property whilst collecting and spending our taxes... It seems I'm in a minority on here by being genuinely appaled about this...which is depressing, to be honest.