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To: IPSA
Abolish MPs' Food subsidies
End all food and drink subsidies for MPs in parliament.
Why is this important?
Austerity; we're told it is essential. We're told we have to suffer it to save the country. We're told we're all in it together.
Well, it's time the MPs showed that they believe this or are forced to pitch in even a little.
At a time when food costs for ordinary citizens are soaring, when in-work citizens are relying on benefits and even food banks to feed their families, when ordinary folk are suffering pay freezes and even cuts tax-payer funded subsidies for MPs' food is an obscenity.
MPs already receive a generous stipend for their efforts. They receive an excellent (many believe even more unfair and oft-abused) expenses package. Many are independently wealthy. Most hold several other highly-paid posts for which they are, frankly, only qualified by virtue of their status as an MP. In addition, they receive annual pay-rises that amount to more than many citizens earn in a year.
To continue to allow them to receive hugely discounted food and drink on top of this is an obscenity which must come to an immediate end. There is not one economical or moral justification for this subsidy and it must end.
