Monday 18 May 2009

Expensive Mistakes

The row over MPs expenses has been expanded greatly by exposure resonant of the 1980s media coverage of Thatcher. What I am finding, now, is that this sensational story has not taken into account the intricacies of working as a civil servant. Minister is a job like no other, these people travel at all hours of the night and day to meet their commitments around the country. I am not excusing the excruciatingly embarassing revelation that mortgages have been invented to gleen off public money but that the good, honest MPs need solid renumeration to do the profession justice. If we paid MPs more, relative to their level of responsibility and expertise, then there would be no need to exploit the system as it stands. I believe that it is has always been possible to access expense claims for every MP online, and can't believe that the Telegraph is so tantalising such an obvious avenue. The question is, how can we recover the last 100 years of expenses? Someone is laughing all the way to ....