Moonlighting MPs should be sacked
It's not just expenses fiddling MPs who are a problem, but also those who are working for outside interests whilst being paid to work for the public!
MPs are earning substantial amounts from jobs outside parliament while claiming generous parliamentary expenses, unpublished employment contracts have revealed.
More than 150 MPs have accepted nonparliamentary jobs, with some tripling their Commons salaries. One Conservative backbencher who claims the maximum possible second homes allowance has 10 other jobs.
The rules need to be changed to prevent MPs from working for someone else when they are supposed to be working for the electorate. If They Work For You, this is a full-time job and there is no time to work for anybody else otherwise they would be working part-time for the electorate and yet draw a full-time wage!
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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