So, the public should not pay the bill.
Do you expect the MPs to pay for their own security?
Or expect them to operate without suitable levels of security?
Or is there an alternative I am missing?
Once again I will repeat that the tax payer shouldn’t have to foot the bill. It’s that simple, which part of that is difficult to grasp?
That is very simple to grasp. Yes.
You don`t want us to pay for the security of our MPs.
Now will you please answer the very simple point I am making.
Should MPs operate without proper security?
Pay for security themselves?
Other?
just to interject here you forgot an option Franglais special branch do their job
I have no reason to disclose to you who I believe should pay for the security. I clearly stated that it shouldn’t be the tax payer, simple.
Wasn’t Prescott an amateur boxer at one time?
Raab and William Haig were both good at judo I think? There must be others.
Several ex forces MPs, and many MPs who were world class pie-eaters too.
As an aside McMillan was wounded in WW1 and Healey was a beach master at Anzio.
Oh my, but yes!
Simple indeed.
Yes, Special Branch should do their job correctly.
Are you saying they are not? But maybe that is a distraction.
If you want them to do more work, then maybe it is them who will take that £31m or whatever. They can`t do more work without more staff and funding, can they?
the article posted said the money was for mp’s to hire body guards and private security firms, clearly they didn’t do their job when Jo Cox reported the threats she was receiving and she was fobbed off. I would also argue as i did yesterday that they didn’t do as much as they could of with David Amass.
I would suggest that if the special branch are unable to properly do the job required of them then something needs to be done AFTER proper investigation and consultancy to find out why rather than just throw public money at it.
There are a whole host of reasons it could be for example too much bureaucracy or sheer laziness im not saying it is those things but just throwing money at it doesn’t work as they have proved time and time again with the nhs
No it didn’t. Not that I saw anyway. From your link:
“Measures could include the provision of bodyguards for MPs most at risk.
The funding will also be used for additional police patrols in response to increased community tensions.”
Special Branch already do “provision of personal protection for VIPs.”
Something need to be done.
But not now.
Should we ask any terrorists to go and have a cup of coffee while we decide how to defend Parliament.
When did the NHS last have money thrown at it!
And I do exclude the money thrown at Tory’s mates who scammed many millions selling cheap tat !
Jezuz H Kerr-iced! I thought that was a wind up! but no…
I wonder if he met Audie Murphy at any point
Also a good amateur photographer and wrote about his cycling holiday in Germany in the late '30’s.
Of an era when politicians, of all parties, had some hinterland.
It’s not their fault that they can’t start wars, oh hang on a minute. 
I seem to remember Eric Joyce being a bit of a fighter in the Commons bars. Was the MP for Falkirk for a few years. He definitely wouldn’t have been taking any bother from the public and would ‘pile in’ at the slightest opportunity.
Yeah, definitely a brawler, but if Wikipedia can be relied on, it’s not his most notable memorable characteristic
Oh my goodness, a dot dot dot offender.
They’ll be banning the words man and woman next, time to get a grip on this childish nonsense, I know it can be done, just needs the will and a bit of expertise.