Peers still demand £323 daily allowance

[Skyedriver]

Peers demand £323 daily allowance to log in to virtual parliamentary proceedings from home

Good to see they are doing their part in this crisis, still wanting the daily cash despite not turning up..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/17/pe...

This lot collect over £300/day each, thats a bill of around £90M/year.

Yet they are trying to pull money back from future state pensions increases. Spend that £90M on the NHS instead and get rid of these hangers on.

[FN2TypeR]

Get 'em on the scrap heap, where they belong.

[Jonesy23]

Tell them no - what are they going to do, turn up and bang on the door? Go on strike? No-one cares.

If you're going to make demands try to do it from a position of strength.

[biggbn]

Pure greed. Its a wonder they don't get to claim 'up to' 10k expenses for the inconvenience too...

[frisbee]

Seems fair, I get through a lot of packets of biscuits WFH.

[Andeh1]

Im still (for now...) claiming my full salary for doing what work I can from home.

Why is this situation for the Lords any different? Do their travel expenses get included in that £300 odd sum?

[bitchstewie]

If I'm being entirely fair I don't see why they shouldn't get what they usually would for days they work minus travel and any costs that are not relevant to working from home and only apply with physical attendance to a workplace (the House of Lords).

Presume anyone criticising them who is also working from home is happy to work for free?

[anonymous-user]

Get rid of them all and randomly select furloughed people to do it on a rotating basis.

I’d be quite happy to be a lockdown lord for a month for no expenses.

Replacing the lords with randomers is the way forwards. Call it sortition if the word randomers doesn’t sound like it has enough gravitas.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 18th April 08:22

[Camoradi]

House of Lords Working from home

[Vanden Saab]

bhstewie said:

If I'm being entirely fair I don't see why they shouldn't get what they usually would for days they work minus travel and any costs that are not relevant to working from home and only apply with physical attendance to a workplace (the House of Lords).

Presume anyone criticising them who is also working from home is happy to work for free?

Or... they could choose to take the lower £150 odd basic allowance that some of the more enlightened members already do.

[98elise]

Andeh1 said:

Im still (for now...) claiming my full salary for doing what work I can from home.

Why is this situation for the Lords any different? Do their travel expenses get included in that £300 odd sum?

Same here. Working from home and "demanding" they pay me just for logging and doing my job.

[bitchstewie]

Vanden Saab said:

Or... they could choose to take the lower £150 odd basic allowance that some of the more enlightened members already do.

That's plain weird at face value that they can choose between two rates

If that covers their costs that would seem sensible.

As much as I'm not a massive fan of the House of Lords I'm also not a fan of people being expected to work for free simply because people don't like the institution they work for.

[Andeh1]

Camoradi said:

House of Lords Working from home

An article from 2013 and an image from The Express? Scraping the barrel a bit there, dontchathink!?