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    scraping by on £120k

    no not SAS.

    Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds quits Government post | Mail Online


    Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds quits his post and moans: I just can't live in London on £120,000 (and the £25,000 he paid his wife didn't make up the difference either)
    Boston and Skegness MP resigns with attack on Parliamentary expenses
    Says his income wouldn't cover cost of a Westminster flat for his family
    Received £89,435 ministerial salary and £28,000 London rental allowance
    Also pays his wife Lizibeth up to £25,000 in her role as his office manager
    Hardly ever sees his family, two daughters aged 15 & 13 and son aged 12
    But it's claimed he got £500,000 from expenses system through house sale
    anyone else suffering this level of poverty?
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    INKSPE.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #3
      They should have turned olympic athlete accomodation into MP flats.

      I think he means he can't keep a belgravia mansion and eat swans' wings every night.

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        #4
        Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
        They should have turned olympic athlete accomodation into MP flats.
        Then normal people would have to suffer living next to that scum.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #5
          Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
          INKSPE.
          INKSPE
          'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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            #6
            Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
            I think he is suggesting he 'is considerably richer than thouw'.
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #7
              Its those weekends in France, public school fees and large bottles of wine that eat up the budget.

              Somehow, I think those on minimum wage cleaning his office will not be sympathetic.
              McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
              Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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                #8
                Why does he need a westminister flat? Do all you guys at the wharf have a flat there too?

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                  #9
                  Indeed. He really does not come off as someone 'normal'. Apparently he doesn't want to commute in to London from the fringes. So wanted to house his entire family at a Westminister flat.

                  I've got a mate in Acton who has a 4 bedroom house and he pays £2000/mnth. That only, what. 40 minutes commute on the tube?
                  McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
                  Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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                    #10
                    Pay peanuts, you get monkeys...

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