Pruning and cleaning up MPs expenses
"Sir Thomas last week wrote to MPs with his provisional conclusions. MPs have reacted in anger after it emerged he had decided to limit claims for gardening to a maximum of £1,000 a year since 2004 – with a cap of £2,000 for cleaning".
Can somebody please tell me what a MP's garden has to do with legitimate parliamentary business? Everybody else has either to do their own gardening, or pay for a part-time gardener out of their own wage. As it stands, MPs are claiming £20 per week each multiply this by 650 MPs that's £650,000 per year of taxpayers money which could be saved or better spent elsewhere!
Once again for cleaning their own house, they can claim £2,000 per year which is £40 per week doing away with this perk can save the taxpayers £1,300,000 per year. Everybody else has to do their own cleaning or pay for a part-time cleaner out of their own wages.
£1,950,000 almost £2m can be saved each year. Why should MPs be given £60 per week extra which cannot be justified and for which they do not have to account for? All it needs is for examination of other perks to see if they can be justified as being necessary to the job.
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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