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Grant Shapps' Children Share A Bedroom
Ethel_Fred
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“People share rooms quite commonly - my boys share a room."
Has he thought of an extension?
Since @grantshapps mentioned his house, worth recapping it has 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 reception rooms & is worth £1.2m.
Has he thought of an extension?
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That's the difference!
Because their dad's a dick?
I doubt that they are sharing. That was probably the reason they bought a 5 bedroom property.
psst they don't spend their salary That's the difference!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199596/89m-MPs-expenses-26-just-year.html
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You mean like Cameron and George who used expenses to pay off mortgage interest, a practice now outlawed.
My children shared bedrooms, I shared bedrooms with my sisters, my parents when children shared bedrooms. What's the big deal?
Is it?
I thought it was allowed to claim mortgage expenses to buy a flat in London so you can attend parliament. Cheaper than renting.
My sympathies are with people desperate for a home and not with people with spare rooms. I know what being homeless is like.
"Cameron 'used the system' to claim £21,000 in a year to pay his mortgage"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-556290/MPs-expenses-list-reveals-David-Cameron-used-claim-21-000-year-pay-mortgage.html#ixzz2P8wAGRAX
I think they changed the rules surrounding the paying of mortgage interest after the expenses scandal or at least were being reported to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if they failed to do it or quietly dropped the change though.
Stop trying to scapegoat innocent people.
Therefore they weren't responsible for their "spare room", so why punish them?
People who are desperate for a home will only get a one bed property unless they have children - and even with two children they are probably only entitled to a 2 bed property, but there's a shortage of one & two bed properties and the government has made those properties even more in demand from people who are being forcibly downsized.
So my sympathy is with people who are victims of an especially brainless government policy which is going to do little to solve the problem of homelessness or overcrowding. The only thing it might do is save the taxpayer some money - though that is in doubt if people have to move to the private sector where there are more small properties to rent.
At the end of it all they've got another property courtesy of the taxpayer.
Exactly!! When my husband and I were allocated this 3 bedroom house which we have been living in for the past 41 years we had an eleven month old baby,we didn't choose the house we didn't choose to have any spare bedrooms but we had them and even when Thatchers Government in power you didn't get punished for having spare bedrooms, this Government has gone to a whole new level.
Exactly, and a property that they are in a financial position to have paid for themselves.
Meanwhile those that aren't in that same financial position have very little money, struggle with low wages are told to stop being greedy and not to expect the tax payer to pay for things for you.
Amazing isn't it.
Even in the worst of Thatcher people weren't treated like this.
It would be even cheaper if they handed back the property to the government when they ceased being an MP.
When I was growing up it was nearly all council estates that was in my town, nobody had a problem with it, it was how towns were developed. My grandparents started out in a prefab then moved to a newly built council house where they lived until they passed away.
It's only recently thanks to this nasty government that people now think they have the right to sneer and look down their noses at people living in council homes. How many people actually benefited from buying their council property at a huge saving? I bet their morals didn't bother them then that they were saving thousands.
They had the choice to decline the property. They can now choose to move.