| | <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304976/Alan-Duncan-claimed-thousands-for-gardening-MPs-expenses.html</ref> | | <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304976/Alan-Duncan-claimed-thousands-for-gardening-MPs-expenses.html</ref> |
| − | This happened at the height of the banking crisis, which caused great financial insecurity and hardship for the public, those "low-achievers" he despises so much. That did not prevent Duncan from prolonged and public whinging. He complained that MPs with their £64,000 salary, subsidized restaurants and champagne bars, paid secretarial staff and generous expense allowances, were expected "to live on rations and are treated like sh-t," a term he used publicly.<ref> | + | This happened at the height of the banking crisis, which caused great financial insecurity and hardship for the public, those "low-achievers" as he called them. That did not prevent Duncan from prolonged and public whinging. He complained that MPs with their £64,000 salary, subsidized restaurants and champagne bars, paid secretarial staff and generous expense allowances, were expected "to live on rations and are treated like sh-t," a term he used publicly.<ref> |