It surprises me how steamed up people are getting over MP’s with their noses in the trough. This news story seems to be taking up so much of our MP’s time that they can’t be doing much else. The system appears to have ground to a halt over the matter.
The massive increases in public borrowing dwarf the sums these people have wrongly taken from the public purse. I guess it’s the personal gain element of these expense claims, but our focus of frustration should really be on the gross incompetenece of government, financial regulators and the greedy bankers. The mess the economy is in is a far bigger issue than MP’s on the fiddle!
For sure, MP’s caught with their hand’s in the till, like the individual with the mortgage claim for a non-existent loan, should go to prison!
MP’s unfair pensions will cost us much more than the expenses issue however. What about putting them in the same boat as the rest of us? What about balancing the wider public sector’s bullet proof pensions with those of the private sector? Did you know the average private pension will yield just £1600 per annum? A far cry from the puffed up claims of the salesman’s patter, or the reassuring waffle from your employer!
YES, we need a general election! The current administration have shown they aren’t up to the job and they have had long enough to get it right. In many cases they caused a lot of the problems they are claiming to put right now. Politicians – hypocrits!
Like any washed up administration, they will cling on to power to the bitter end unless they are forced to go to the country. In the meantime we’ll have to endure more of their “do-gooder” commercially bereft idealism. Hugely expensive to the tax payer, but for little benefit (often resulting in further expense to the public purse).
Grumpy old fart that I am!
