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Reihan: No Money, Mo' Problems

By Ross Douthat

Oct 4 2007, 3:10 PM ET Comment

From the Wikipedia entry for columnist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris:

As an MP he took part in a documentary requiring him to live for a week on state social security payments set by the Conservative government for which he was an MP. The experiment came to an embarrassing end when he ran out of money for the electricity meter.


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