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Grumpy!
10.10 Fair and reasonable, not draconian, hmmmm.
10.12 -these measures will not make parliament only accessible to the rich. So don't even try that line Harman, Brown etc.
10.14 - central pay bank for rent and hotels. Cheaper and more effective, MPs can pay the difference if they want somewhere bigger if it meets criteria. Not quite the Olympic village but vast improvement.
10.15- LCA reduced. Sorry Mr McNulty.
10.18 - Kelly puts Harman in her place. Claims she supported the idea of family members not being employed during oral evidence in the summer but not this week.. silly wench.
10.20 Goodbye communication allowance, thank goodness for that. Costs should come out of office budget where it has to compete with other needs. PS MPs must meet the cost of travel home.
Kelly warning leaders not to renege on their promise to implement the recommendations. "leadership and determination" needed "however uncomfortable that may be"
Wants it in place by next parliament. - "if the will and the determination are there" it can be done"
"This committee will be watching."
C4 news get the first question- Kelly bats away issue of pay, fair as it's not in his purview.
Cathy Newman: Rental is more expensive in central London no? Is there a limit on hotel expenses?
Kelly: £120 per night for hotels. Has a dig at Dolphin Sq. City Inn rubbing hands together no doubt.
Nick Robinson is getting highly distressed that he hasn't been allowed to ask a question yet. Kelly clearly very grumpy with BBC leaks. Nothing for Sky yet either... Figures seeing as they both went to town on the report last week.
The Sun got a question, Nick Robinson checking watch.
Kelly says there is a considerable desire to get the expenses scandal behind us, in order to do that, MPs must accept the report as a whole and simply "get on with it".
Michael White praises the Fees Office. Predictably. Now bashing bankers. Seems lost and bewildered, slipped into Russian. Rambling. Drunk? Kelly "Thank you for that."
10.44: Nick Robinson checking his watch continually, still no question, getting grumpy:

10.46: Sky get the question before BBC. Nick Robinson, steaming.
10.48: Michael White is now heckling from the back, defending MPs. Heavy night?
10.49: HAHAHA
Sunlight Centre
get a question before the BBC. Probably something to do with the Shadow Kelly
report they published.Ok Robinson nearly there, he's got the microphone in his hand.... is he going to get the last question as a thanks-for-coming-prize? Shame the TV news channels have already cut away. Very embarrassing for BBC.
10.58: Oh it just gets worse. Kelly handed a piece of paper saying ASK NICK ROBINSON A QUESTION. "I'm told you're looking gumpy Nick". Big bluster all very cringe.

10 comments:
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Surely seeing as they are there 4 days a week for 30 weeks of the year, that is £100 a night for a hotel and @ £1k a month overall.
Which seems fine.
Ask a queston TB. See if you get in before BBC.
I know we should being serious but I cannot help but think that TB's picture of the report looks like a big, and shapely, purple bottom with TB's thumb up it.
Ask him what colour underpants he is wearing. I would
Hair looking good from the back.
Well dune Juliet good queston. Northen Eco in before Robo and BBC. Hahahaha
You should try to get the screen grab from sky news at the end of its feed. It's just TB on empty rows with his laptop with Kelly infront of him/her.
yes Hyena was pleased to bat for Sunlight. Beating stuck-up Nick Robinson was a bonus.
PS thanks Banter.