Quite right, BV.
So, let's just remind ourselves how rubbish the system is...
2*. Courtney, go the meeting at Coningsy tomorrow morning for me. Here's my brief.
Courtney. Yes Sir.
Examines train timetable, given that it's already dark at High Wycombe. Call MT at Coningsy for collection from railhead, no answer. Call, MT at HW for self drive. All gone. OK, I'll drive. Wife has car for her work, I go on motorbike. Submit claim for mileage, rejected as MT and trains were available as alternatives to personal transport.
They were wrong on two counts: a) neither could be arranged when I was tasked, b) more than one alternative is bad grammar.
Oh, if only we all worked the hours that suit the money savers.
Do MPs have to put up with that? Do some of them impose such a system on us?