National Democracy Week – Talk to Government about making your voice heard
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Hello again @WilliamEC
The cost of politics is often controversial. Of course the number of MPs affects the total cost. The scale of spending on politics (measured in tens of millions of pounds) and the scale of spending on the NHS (measured in tens of billions of pounds) is very different.
There is an ongoing Boundary Review. The Commissions conducting this Review have been asked to base it on 600 MPs, 50 fewer than at present. The Commissions will present their final recommendations for this Review in the autumn.
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Pippa_Scope said:
Many thanks to @talkdemocracy for chatting with us today, and thanks for asking your questions everybody!
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You could save money by cutting assessments to all disabled people and writing computer programmes where actual GPs, consultants, or whoever, can check a box on their screen to say what help we need (like PIP, wheelchair, occupational therapy or whatever), why not do that instead of penalising disabled people themselves with cuts?And i watch discussions in parliament and think it's rude the MPs just walk out because they have no interest in what's being discussed (and probably get paid for just turning up and not doing any actual work anyway), why is that allowed?Figured you might be coming back at some point so i might as well post.
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