to think they should sell Downing Street off and make them all work from home?

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It seems to me in this time of crisis, that if we are talking about bedroom taxes for disabled children and elderly people, then a logical extension is to make all civil servants and government ministers work from home to same money, and flog Downing Street, to offset their salaries. After all, the rest of the country is having to do that a lot of the time.

Em, what?

Hey maybe MPs can just vote by liking something on Facebook and we can sell the houses of Parliament!

Absolutely. Turn the HoP into a creche and soft play facility.

You do know that it's more than just David Cameron working in Downing Street? Or are you as dumb as your op would imply?

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Downing Street is mainly offices with just a small flat for the PM isn't it. And they need a room for the cabinet to meet in - I don't think the country's decision making would be that rigorous if they were using Skype.

So they bloody should, it would be lovely to see them go without heating and luxuries whilst they make decisions to make us poor

The thing is, David and Sam Cameron have a lovely house, and they had to downsize to go and live in Downing Street. Sam Cam would probably love it if she were kicked out.

ffs

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Naughty!

Could you imagine them trying to have PMQ's by Skype with backbenchers all trying to chip in. How would you virtually waive order papers and drone "hear hear".

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You do wonder if they would be sitting in their underpants conducting parliamentary business .

Not Downing Street, but if they did what some countries do and provided small stay-over flats with a canteen in the capital for MPs rather than funding mansions with heavy upkeep costs, a fair bit of taxpayers money could be saved.

If its in the same state of repair as the Palace of Westminster then I think they'd struggle to find a buyer

Cory was about to say the same. The whole second home thing really narks me, they claim for their family homes as second homes but they're not. The London properties are their true second homes/investment properties.
Why don't they just buy an apartment block for mp's use when in London on business?

Don't they use 10 Downing Street for visitor such as the American president ( I do know his name but can't spell it) I sure he would love the travel lodge or b&b

Quite. And the Civil Service should work in their pants as well. They are far too self-important. Working in pants could become a national social equality drive.

I am all for Travelodges for dignitaries, but make them share with a colleague as I had to do on a recent business trip (William Hague would love that, of course). They can take them to a pub for lunch (but no charging of alcohol or anything like that, again like many workplaces now).

I am feeling MEAN and REBELLIOUS.

Anyway, Broadband would suddenly improve if we made them do this.

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They can even pay for their own laptops
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Cabinet can meet in Buckingham Palace. That's big and we pay for that as well anyway.

I can see a downside. Would they do their research into social problems by watching Jezza Kyle engaging with the media.

And the Civil Service should work in their pants as well. They are far too self-important. Working in pants could become a national social equality drive.

You haven't thought that one through....figurative Big Swinging Dicks are bad enough, you want them literally too?

I had not thought of that. Maybe I should insist they work in highly desexualised pyjamas.

New venue for Cabinet - suggest they meet in a local primary school staff room and get a sense of how the other half live. They can step over the PE equipment and inhalers on their way in.

In fact I would go further and put a child representative on the Cabinet, to comment on things like child poverty, edukashun and broadband.

I would instead treat them exactly the way MoD employees who are assigned to work in London are. What is good enough for those who risked their lives for this country is good enough for those in Parliament - and it sure as hell doesn't involve getting a free house in London courtesy of the taxpayer.

I would get rid of all the subsidised restaurants and bars at the House of Commons, they can pay for their own food and grub out of their wages and not put it on expenses.

Yeah, a subsidised bar. FFS! They bang on about all these benefits claimants, all of whom are alcoholics, of course, and have a subsidised bar.

TBH it does start to look actually quite bonkers when you type out all the contradictions between what is supposed to be good enough for certain sectors of the community and the Civil Service and Gvt.

I am typing this in my pants, btw