Payback time?
June 3rd 2009 17:44
The great expenses debate rages on. Members of the "Mother of Parliaments" at Westminster, London have been having a right good laugh at the expense of the hard-working taxpayers.
Claims for allowances, which, or so I believe, are to help with the running of their office and constitutional work, have been made for such things as bath-plugs, cleaning of moats, payment of council tax. The list is endless.
Now these "honourable" members (all 600 of them) have been caught with their fingers in the taxpayers pockets, are we about to witness payback?
I'm sure there'll be an almighty clear-out at the next General election, but that is still twelve months away. Some local council elections, and also the European elections, are to take place this week. The present inept and hamstrung government is is fear of losing almost every seat, some to minority parties and even independent MPs.
I hope so, for this kind of kick in the teeth is required. It may be in vain, but it will at least serve notice to MPs of all parties that the public has had enough, especially in times like now where many have lost their jobs and their homes.
The next step, hopefully, should be the prosecution of every memer who has fiddled the books, but I won't hold my breath. There still seems to be a different set of laws for MPs.
Claims for allowances, which, or so I believe, are to help with the running of their office and constitutional work, have been made for such things as bath-plugs, cleaning of moats, payment of council tax. The list is endless.
Now these "honourable" members (all 600 of them) have been caught with their fingers in the taxpayers pockets, are we about to witness payback?
I'm sure there'll be an almighty clear-out at the next General election, but that is still twelve months away. Some local council elections, and also the European elections, are to take place this week. The present inept and hamstrung government is is fear of losing almost every seat, some to minority parties and even independent MPs.
I hope so, for this kind of kick in the teeth is required. It may be in vain, but it will at least serve notice to MPs of all parties that the public has had enough, especially in times like now where many have lost their jobs and their homes.
The next step, hopefully, should be the prosecution of every memer who has fiddled the books, but I won't hold my breath. There still seems to be a different set of laws for MPs.
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