‘Must be hard surviving on £300 per DAY!’ Viewers react with fury as documentary lifts the lid on House of Lords ‘day care centre for the elderly’

‘Members of the House of Lords faced the wrath of viewers as they lamented their £300-a-day expenses allowance on television.
In the first installment of BBC Two’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Meet the Lords, cameras were given rare and unprecedented access in the House in a bid to reveal what life is like as a Peer.
However, some viewers were less than impressed as they watched the Lords quaff wine and discuss their allowances.
Crossbench Peer Lord Palmer told the camera: ‘If you think that today, a high powered accountant or lawyer is probably charging £600 an hour, that we get £300 a day – the press outcry if we had a tiny rise would be absolutely intolerable.’
But the comments made by Lord Palmer – who lives in a 110-room mansion – led to something of an outcry on social media.’
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