I have been saving this up all week: it has been great sport to watch the media lambaste any MP that has claimed for cat food, sink plugs and security.I have enjoyed the endless embarrassment of the Government, and next week I will immerse myself in the improbable expenses claimed by the Tories; and after that the Lib Dems.
The Government is decrying the fact that although we think that their expenses claims are beyond our understanding they are all “within the rules”, and there lies the problem.
The Government and politicians in general have no understanding that the people who voted them into office feel angry and disappointed by these revelations, they seem to think that what they are doing is morally correct because it is “within the rules” despite the fact that the rules are obviously amoral.
There is an answer to all this, scrap the expenses gravy train, and the second home debacle, buy an empty office block in London, there are plenty, convert it into flats and require any MP who doesn’t want to travel “home” to stay there.
This of course would include Cabinet Ministers, security can be provided at the door, there would be no need for “upgrades” or new kitchens or pretend beams, MPs would have one home which they can pay for out of their not inconsiderable salary like the rest of us have to, and we would know that our money is not being washed down the plughole (sink plug notwithstanding) by the greed and selfishness of those we have put our trust in to behave like responsible adults and consider our needs before theirs.
Still, my enjoyment will continue for another week or so, unfortunately for the political takers their embarrassment will continue.
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2 comments:
Mind you - gathering them all together in one place might create some kind of critical mass. Or beg the kind of airliner training course that doesn't require the landing modules...
But seriously: I wonder if it is actually wise to allow them to live so closely together. Cheap, yes: but to give them another cause to see themselves as a single and united group or class as distinct from mutually competing and distinct parties - and competing for our votes and our money and manpower - that, I think, might harm what's left of our multi-party democracy.
I see your point but, it also may make them talk to each other, and realise that they are in power to do their best for us and the country, anyway there would obviously be a heirarchy, the ministers would live on the higher floors, and each party would probably have their own floors.
I think that separation would continue, and even if it doesn't there doesn't seem to much difference in policy between them any more.
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