Sentences with phrase «duck houses»

She has not said that she will raise the duty on duck houses.

The Legg review was ordered by Gordon Brown in May in an attempt to draw a line under the damaging expenses scandal in which it emerged some MPs had claimed for duck houses, chandeliers and massage chairs.

News of MPs» expenses led to memories of duck houses, moats, and a trouser press.

-- choose to go: Peking Duck House.

How can you create satire if MPs are in real life merrily attempting to buy expensive duck houses with taxpayers» money?

«Stopping free milk would have been a «duck house cut» Main If it's to work, Osborne's spending scaleback will need Cameron's full support»

Bannister, for example, planted a field and a grove of trees and is making duck houses.

Because basically we care more about MPs who spend money on duck houses than MPs who grope, assault, harass and frighten women.

And yet — incongruously precipitated by revelations about MPs» bills for duck houses, trouser presses and servants» quarters — there is a widespread acknowledgment that Britain's political system is in a profound crisis.

For $ 18.88, patrons will get a three - course dinner at any of the participating restaurants, except for the Peking Duck House, which will offer the same special at lunch instead.

They've settled into the brooder quite nicely - not quite ready for the pond and duck house, of course until they're bigger.

I immediately began to panic - had I inadvertently helped put through a claim for an artex ceiling, a duck house or even a Waterford crystal vase?

Just two words are necessary to explain this MP's decision to step down: duck house.

It appears that at a time of deep - set recession and duck houses, the country has become all too serious.

Plus, I did once buy a duck house when I had the village pond in my front yard, and also, I was coached in the art of expenses claiming by a top executive at Lew Grade's ATV in Birmingham many years ago.

Paul Norton, whose father served in the convoy, pointed out the good value the gesture offered taxpayers: «As Ms Dinenage knows, the previous member for Gosport spent more on a duck house than it would cost to honour these gallant old veterans.»

Duck houses and moats were the key to victory.

And if you insist on characterising all 50,000 protesters (some of whom were academics) as rioting students then why not use the same reductionist metonymy to characterise all cats as grey or all Conservatives as the owners of moats and duck houses?

I can't recall exactly which MPs flipped their mortgages or who claimed for a duck house on their expenses.

His unflustered wife Felicity, who shows composure and oblivion worthy of Marie Antoinette — in her Harrods apron she explains the necessity of her duck house: «a roof over their heads, somewhere to call home» — is brilliantly portrayed by Nancy Carroll.

There is the funny side, the duck houses and moats.

Moats, wisteria, manure, glittery toilet seats, hanging baskets, massage chairs, elephant lamps and a duck house.

The beauty of this new production, The Duck House, following the demented escapades of a politician in deep duck pond - water when the press gets hold of all his colleagues» embarrassing expense claims, is that it reminds us of the most bizarre excesses of the scandal.

The Duck House, as the name suggests to anyone who wasn't living under a rock four years ago, is an amusing take on the 2009 expenses scandal that changed parliament forever.

The 71 - year - old MP added: «As has been reported my claim for the duck house was rightly «not allowed» by the Fees Office.

The Lib Dem leader added that, in rejecting proportional representation, Cameron was «defending a political culture of moats, duck houses, Ashcroft, party funding scandals and a system where you have hundreds of Labour and Conservative MPs who can completely dismiss and ignore their constituents».

In truth the duck houses and moat cleaning were just symptoms of a deeper political malaise.

The lame - duck House of Representatives today accepted a stripped - down Senate version of the America COMPETES Act, a bill to strengthen research, education, and innovation at several federal agencies.

The DOE science and energy programs were funded by the lame - duck House on Dec. 21, with 212 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting in favor, and 130 Republicans voting no.

The Duck House offers comfortable accommodation in stylish rooms in beautiful, peaceful Greyton.

«This work features cross-dressing farmers, a duck house (a reference to politicians» expenses) and a cricket bat leaning against the wall.