Nadine Dorries MP

An open letter to Nadine (since she won't publish it on her blog)

Whether you can legitimately claim ACA seems to hang on the issue of where your main home is. On the basis that you spend a considerable amount of time in the constituency (commuting back and forth with fellow workers - admirable) and you spend most of the parliamentary recess abroad, it seems you have little (by comparison) opportunity to spend days and nights at your rented Cotswold property.

Therefore it is difficult to see how you could reasonably pass the Green Book test that your main home (the rented Costswold property) is normally the place where you spend most (the majority) of your time.

On the face of it, and without anyone having details of the precise number of nights spent in each location over a 12-month period, it would seem that it is the constituency house that is your main residence, in so much you spend more time there than anywhere else.

Which would mean you are not reasonably entitled to claim the ACA on that property, despite your shrill claims to the contrary.

Correct me if I'm wrong Nadine, but that's how it looks from analysis your own words, on your blog, which to be fair, seem rather rambling and have not as yet justified your claim to the allowance.