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MP’s Expenses

Asked if the Prime Minister thought today’s recommendations were a step in the right direction, the PMS said that as we had consistently made clear, the Prime Minister would welcome any step towards greater transparency of MP’s expenses.

Put that the Prime Minister should voluntarily publish a full breakdown of his own expenses, the PMS said that that was not the Prime Minister’s decision to make; it was a matter for the House authorities. The Government could not start making one-off initiatives of this kind. There was an overall decision that needed to be taken by the House authorities, they were responsible for decisions in relation to publishing MP’s expenses and they had made a welcome step forward this morning.

Put that such a gesture would show leadership by the Prime Minister, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had set out his views quite clearly in the letter he had sent to the Speaker a couple of weeks ago.

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Unless our elite Members of Parliament believe all terrorists are idiots and could not use other means to locate all information regarding their personal information, I sympathise with them regarding their security.

It only goes to show that they do not seem to care how they spend OUR money as long as they do not have to be accountable.

The money spent on the Speakers 2nd residence could have gone to far better things to benefit the Country.

To think it wasn’t all that long ago the Country had a civil war due to the Monarchy acting in the same fashion.

Perhaps our closer links with France may enable us to get good rates on a second hand guillotine!
Comment by Rod Turner — 4 Apr 2008 on 9:23 am | Link

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