Posts Tagged ‘Westminster’
Legit and illegit – expense omissions
MP Expenses claims - www.parliament.uk. Here's the list of what parliament has decided should be omitted from today's expenses disclosures: Rejected claims Any residential address Regular travel patterns Names of anyone delivering goods to homes Money spent on security Hotels or guest houses used Letters/emails to Fees [...]
Restoring trust – how?
IPSOS Mori's poll on trust in politics at the end of May should surprise no-one. 3/4 said that Britain's system of government needed improvement -- the most negative view since Mori started asking the question in 1995. At 20%, less than half the number of people believe that the Westminster parliament is doing its job, as compared with the last [...]
Nonetheless, tomorrow we must vote on the issues
Tonight is pre-election night. Tomorrow, county and Euro elections. Which means not one person who has been implicated in MP expenses is standing. To be sure, MEPs have been questioned about their expenses in the past, most notably UKIP, whose value to the taxpayer in terms of cost for work done is lamentable. Westminster must be reformed, [...]
We should reform now, but we cannot transform until we agree what politics is for
Something odd and deeply ironic is happening. People who have never voted are telling us we voted for the wrong people. People who have invested their lives in being famous are suddenly deciding that they have the attributes necessary to run the country. Meanwhile, politicians that most of us have either never heard of, or not heard from for a [...]
