MPs on expenses – some of them still don’t get it do they?
It really is coming to something when the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has to erect a sign at their House of Commons offices warning MPs:
We will not tolerate abuse of our staff
…And the civil servant who was charged with implementing the new system leaves his job. But wait, he was only on a six month contract – and he’s quit that and given this explanation:
I have left the job for the sake of my health and sanity
The Telegraph reports that:
Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP, sent a complaint to Mr Gooding and said the new system was “prehistoric, amateurish, self-defeating and bureaucracy gone mad”.
He wrote: “I have been asked for a copy of my passport or birth certificate to prove my date of birth. Why that is necessary, I do not know. More importantly, as I have used my overdraft limit, my mortgage payment will bounce, causing me embarrassment and further charges You could easily have saved us all this aggravation.”
One wonders if some MPs have still not go it – i.e that the public demanded the new expenses system and that they (the MPs) really ought to consistently show humility and patience in their dealings with IPSA.
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Burbler-in-chief
Nonsense.just because some mps have fiddled in the past is no reason to have an absurdly bureaucratic system now.
Why on earth should an mp have to prove their date of birth to claim expenses.
Ipsa is a case study of a ludicrously over staffed public sector body – it has three press officers and 65 staff. About ten times as many as the private sector would have
Come off it. A bureaucratic organisation is no reason to get arsey with the staff.