tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post4865273559313484033..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Sir Nicholas Winterton and standard class travelMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-44730212578997592010-02-18T21:16:02.810+00:002010-02-18T21:16:02.810+00:00"having to put up with "dreadful human b...<i>"having to put up with "dreadful human beings""</i> is part of the rod that anyone entering politics makes for their own back and most MPs, I would expect, have to put up with the truly dreadful quite often.<br /><br />Discharging one's political duties with the benefit of first class travel (often not so very far differentiated from other classes) seems a very meagre recompense, especially as it may often facilitate effective discharge of such duties.<br /><br />Outrageous troughers are outrageous troughers though - so give them no quarter: the message to MPs should be:- rough it second class with all the dreadful types who vote for you.Cardinal Richelieu's molehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355424371874064362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-57943333907946396652010-02-18T13:20:50.074+00:002010-02-18T13:20:50.074+00:00Unbelievable!!
was he wearing a Victorian frock co...Unbelievable!!<br />was he wearing a Victorian frock coat and sniffing on his perfumed lace kerchief to hide the smells of the underclass.<br />No doubt he pops into economy class with a sack of potato peelings his philanthropic act of the day.<br />Thank G** he is retiring to his castle and moatBushBabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13730646343973186542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-8677580969716268082010-02-18T12:41:21.259+00:002010-02-18T12:41:21.259+00:00I think that our elected representatives ought to ...I think that our elected representatives <b>ought</b> to be able to travel first class when travelling on official business e.g. between constituency and Westminster. But they also <b>ought</b> to have the respect of the public. The two go together and having forfeited one, they can't expect the other. Tough on those MPs who haven't done anything wrong but that's the way it is.Todenoreply@blogger.com