I just wanted to laugh out load at the audacity of Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot, Farnborough and Yateley who who tried to claim for for Sky Sports TV on his expenses. Our local newspaper confirmed that his claim was rejected even after he justified it as a cost of running a second home!
To most of us, Sky Sports TV is considered a luxury. As a working mother, luxury items are the first things that disappear when we are struggling to make ends meet and I certainly don't expect to contribute towards Sky TV for people that probably already have the means to pay for it and just to rub it in the luxury of time to sit down and watch it.
My suggestion to Mr Howarth is that if he can not afford to pay for his own luxury items then please disperse with them just like the rest of us have to.