Sly MPs get around future expense revelations...

MPs are facing a dilemma: The general public has managed to find out about the opulent kitchens and showers and garden ornamentation that it paid for and isn't very happy. Unfortunately, being entitled to expensive kitchens and showers and garden ornamentation is one of the reasons that most MPs got into the public sector in the first place. There's a tug of war going on. We say stop and they say no. Only thing is nobody's pulling hard enough.

Their quandary feels like this: should they pass go and collect a new en suite bathroom as they do so? Or should they accede to public concerns about their spending and just get on with their jobs?

Well, as if you hadn't guessed, it appears that the latter of these options has been thrown out of the newly double-glazed windows (paid for by the tax payer) in favour of a cunning and brilliant plan to abolish the expenses revelations once and for all. How? We hear you ask with a childish sense of wonder. By cheekily changing the rules, that's how.

In a plot uncovered today, it appears that instead of taking a piece of the pie a bite at a time, MPs will from now on eat the whole thing in one go. In the terms of the laity, that means that, instead of spending within a limit and having to account for each transaction that is made, the plump fucks will, from now on, automatically award themselves a 'lump sum' of £23,000 every year, which will remove any need to provide receipts or other details of spending.

This is the paragraph that we were going to start ranting. However, like everybody else, it appears that we've become jaded by MPs and their new and innovative ways to bite their slick thumbs in the faces of the public. If they could be as innovative in ruling the country, then perhaps they'd be deemed worthy of such rewards. For the mean time though, it looks like it's just the same old shit on another cloudy day...

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Written by Oli Anderson on 27 May 2008 9:07 AM. Permalink