As one UK newspaper put it today (paraphrased):
When APT is raised -
Not one airline seat fewer will be occupied.
Not one molecule of CO2 will be saved.
Ba$tard Brown (that well-known thief in a suit) will seize even more of YOUR money to spend as HE wishes - buying votes to keep HIM in the style to which HE has become accustomed.
YOU will have even less of YOUR money to spend as YOU wish.
Do you REALLY think that your political masters will be freeloading any less in their taxpayer-funded personal jets in future?
It is LONG overdue that MP's salaries should be reduced to the average industrial wage (with no fancy perks - travel or otherwise). We MUST force them to live in the same world as the rest of us - preferably in the (poorest) constituency area as chosen by their constituents - following which their home turf and thus this country as a whole would quickly become a much better place in which to live.