What do you expect?
When you bring together so many people of low morality...
The House of Commons' perennial theft problem has become increasingly high tech, with sporadic thefts of computers in recent years turning into a veritable run on laptops, according to the latest figures. In a Commons answer last week, John Thurso detailed cases of theft on the Commons Estate over the last five years, for the …
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given that many hotels & restaurants make up shortfalls from ***staff tips***, why couldn't expences pay outs to MPs be reduced by the cost of items misplaced?
As in some one involved with expenses pay outs makes an estimate as to what the total of this year's expenses bill might be on jan 1St, then deducts a percentage from reimbursements through out the year to cover last year's losses. All you do is reduce the allowances for differant things. For example instead of £10 for a sandwhich that was allowed last year, this year we allow £8.50 with £1.50 to the losses fund callled an admin fee
What is the going ratio of laptops to duck houses? As far as I can see it was £1645, it's 1:1 for a Macbook, about 2:1 for iPads, and give or take 4:1 for laptops (on the assumption that nobody in their right mind would give them anything more powerful to ruin/lose/steal).
I propose that from now on we will measure any UK government matters in duck house equivalents, or DHEs. We could also use TSEs (toilet seat equivalents), but the value of that varies too much - it sort of floats in a different way. Or is in close proximity to things that float -- aargh, sorry to leave with with that image.
Anyway, DHEs anyone? El Reg? Can we add that to the official metrics?
Personally, I think El Reg needs a permanent front page link to these metrics, and their iPhone App should have a conversion facility built in or at least a link..