RECEIVING THEIR JUST REWARDS

A cartoon in the Daily Telegraph recently said it all. In a replica of the old Jaws promotion posters it depicted an MP swimming on the surface of the water whilst below him was not the menacing figure of a shark, but that of a duck Only one MP squandered taxpayer money on a very lavish duck house, but all of them are now tarnished with the same brush. Obviously just as they thought it was safe to return to Parliament the expenses scandal dug its teeth in again.

The front page of the Daily Telegraph (15th October 2009) splashed the headline: “MP pays £100,000 to the company he owns with his girlfriend”. This reported David Wiltshire MP who, so the Telegraph says, claimed for payments to ‘Moorlands Research Services’, which the Telegraph reports was his own company, for the provision of office assistants. This is not good news for most MPs, especially those who have not been so reckless with taxpayers money who are now tarred with the same brush.

MPs had only been back in Parliament a few days to be faced with a letter from Sir Thomas Legge demanding they repay those expenses claimed he considered were not eligible. In some ways you can have a certain sympathy with the MPs who made claims under a system which allowed those claims, but was changed retrospectively by Sir Thomas. However, on the other hand when you are affected by the rapidly increasing costs of living, petrol and diesel prices way over the top thanks to the ludicrous amount of tax and you are crippled by taxation – all thanks to them, any sympathy you may have soon evaporates.

Watching them squirm has a certain sadistic pleasure, their actions have made our lives a misery, they have screwed the economy, undermined our constitution and given our country away to the EU, so now they are receiving their just rewards. At the next general election heads will roll.