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> You can't use parliamentary allowances for any

> form of hospitality.


But you can use up to ?10,000 a year (new allowance) to "communicate" with your constituents. HAve you not noticed the new glossies we're getting thru' the letter box extolling MPs performance? Creates an inbuilt bias for sitting MP - who should be relying upon their performance, not their PR machine and expenses, to be re-elected.

Theres always a "way" of palming off the cost onto someone else - HH is slippery enough to know that.


Sadly this chap little gimmick often works, dazzling people for long enough to get them onside.


I however have pride and respect for myself - a few drinks and a canape or two will not rid me of my utter cynicism of the whole back slapping, pocket lining political circus typified by Harman and her kind.


Proud of your involvement in Iraq Harriet ? would you vote for it now ? still, a few hundred thousand dead is a small price to pay for your career on the gravy train.Still at least you have your plus side - like your support of ID cards

and expanded anti terrorism laws ( even though the vote for eerak invasion probabaly turned more people into potentuial terrorists than any other event in the UK)


you and your kind make me sick Harriet.


I dont know how you sleep at night


Im sure your simpering lackeys will check out this post and may even attempt what is now refered to as an " Osborne Stewart" defence - i.e. a bogus post intended to promote a cause or opportunity on a public forum

HH is exactly the type of intense, turkey-necked, unimaginative careerist, with her steely-glare and "I pretend to be nice but get in the way of my career and I will slaughter you" slag that I have identified elsewhere on this board, ie. just like TJ.

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