Teach yourself Chinese- Lesson 1

Moats, beams and expenses

MPs are entitled to claim for expenditure "necessary for a member to incur to ensure that he or she could properly perform his or her parliamentary duties"

How would you rate these claims?

a)David Heathcoat-Amery - £380 of horse manure

b) Douglas Hogg - £2000 for moat-clearing

c)Tony Blair - £1,800 for makeup (1999-2005)

Changing light bulbs

Q How much does it cost to change the shadow universities secretaries light bulbs?

A David Willetts, the shadow universities secretary, spent more than £100 on workmen to replace 25 lightbulbs at his home. He said: "We had problems with our lighting system which had caused many lights to fuse and needed the attention of an electrician."

One that intrigued Patrina

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No way to attract passengers surely?

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This is how they like their buses.