The home of political correctness
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2009
So we are back on MP’s expenses again and it looks like a whole bunch of them are going to have to pay back money. Great! But Lord Paul, chum of old Gordie, has apparently claimed £38,000 for a one bedroom flat as his main residence - despite being a multi-millionaire and never having spent [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009
So the MPs expenses farce continues to take its toll of scalps as the full scale of the greed and cynical exploitation of the system is exposed. Good on the Daily Telegraph for providing this public service and shame on the speaker for trying to cover it all up.
The impact on upcoming elections has yet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2009
The Sunday papers are full of the never ending greed of our MPs again - claiming as expenses everything from mortgage payments that did not exist to Christmas decorations. And ordinary people in the UK are absolutely furious about it - irrespective of political belief or party politics. There is simply a great groundswell of indignation [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009
Is it any wonder people are losing faith in politicians? The more that is revealed of the scandal surrounding MPs expenses the more unacceptable it becomes. What value integrity and public service? Reading the details in the papers just leads to the sad conclusion that most of them have played the expenses racket for all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2009
So now we are going to pay MPs £150 to turn up to work whether or not they have any real expenses. Still at least Gordon Brown has acknowledged the public anger on this and is seeking to make changes - I suppose we should be thankful for that. But my guess is that the [...]