Posts Tagged ‘Expenses’

What’s Next ?

IN the past week we have been shocked and angered by MPs’ expenses claims. While the majority of us struggle through tough economic times, those we put our trust in have been taking our money to claim for obscure and unnecessary items, such as moat clearing, or cheating the rules by flipping their...
May 27th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

Expensive Expenses

As another blow to the Government surrounding the MP’s expenditure claims, it emerged today that a council in Wales has overpaid councillors for their travelling allowances. Gwynedd council has admitted it has been paying councillors 46.9p per mile rather than 40p. This may not sound like much, but...
May 19th, 2009 | News | Read More

A good day for a journalist means a bad one for an MP

So the Speaker Michael Martin has finally faced the inevitable and has resigned. Despite his resignation speech saying that he had decided to make this move, this is hard to believe. Whether he was given the final push by a certain individual over night (yesterday he made no mention of having an intent...
May 19th, 2009 | Politics | Read More