• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why are politicans allowed to publicly spend while privately holidaying? God I would love a fucking real holiday like that

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      1 year ago

      It’s his business phone, not like he expensed his hotel or something.

      would you prefer politicians have zero way to be contacted by the outside world for weeks at a time?

      • tutus@links.hackliberty.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s not a phone. It’s an iPad.

        Business devices for business. Business pay for them. Personal devices for personal stuff. You pay for them. It’s not rocket science.

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          1 year ago

          An iPad most likely associated with his business mobile plan. Companies generally cover the roaming charge for it’s employees because it means that employee is reachable if shit hits the fan while they are abroad. Mine does, and it’s silly to assume it would be any different for someone holding public office.

          The only difference here is he went from a country where roaming is free (or like $1/GB), to a country where it is crazy expensive, racked up a ludicrous bill on his company plan, and then hoped no one would notice

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            1 year ago

            I’m going to go ahead and ignore what you wrote. It’s largely incorrect and screams ‘I havent read the article’. My answer would be what I wrote previously so I’d be repeating myself

            Just as a heads up, we use £ in Scotland. Not $.

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              1 year ago

              using his parliamentary iPad as a data hotspot,

              Wow the article says the exact same thing I did, what are the odds

              Just as a heads up, we use £ in Scotland. Not $.

              Most people can infer fundamental meaning from conversational context, sorry that is lost on you