Post by yggdrasil on Jan 3, 2022 10:56:57 GMT
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10251223/Taxpayers-foot-bill-Tory-MP-22k-worth-Polish-lessons.html
Taxpayers have footed the bill for MPs to get tens of thousands of pounds in language lessons - including one Tory who has spent nearly £22,000 learning Polish.
Critics hit out after the House of Commons disclosed that politicians have received more than £127,000 worth of free classes in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Arabic over the past five years.
The costs of the classes laid on by parliament reached a new record of £33,931 last year, when people were ordered to stay at home amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Conservative backbencher Daniel Kawczynski received tuition worth £8,244 in 2020-21 alone - equivalent to around £158 a week.
Since 2016 Mr Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, has racked up £21,997 of lessons, according to the figures from parliament.
.....This is the Polish born, already Polish speaking MP who was begging for outside jobs to pay school fees the other week. have to admire the complete greed.
Taxpayers have footed the bill for MPs to get tens of thousands of pounds in language lessons - including one Tory who has spent nearly £22,000 learning Polish.
Critics hit out after the House of Commons disclosed that politicians have received more than £127,000 worth of free classes in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Arabic over the past five years.
The costs of the classes laid on by parliament reached a new record of £33,931 last year, when people were ordered to stay at home amid the coronavirus lockdown.
Conservative backbencher Daniel Kawczynski received tuition worth £8,244 in 2020-21 alone - equivalent to around £158 a week.
Since 2016 Mr Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, has racked up £21,997 of lessons, according to the figures from parliament.
.....This is the Polish born, already Polish speaking MP who was begging for outside jobs to pay school fees the other week. have to admire the complete greed.
