Wednesday 21 January 2009

MP's and expenses

I emailed my MP yesterday the following:

"
Dear Michael Foster,
I am writing to you to express my concern at the recent proposal by the Leader of the House that will allow MPs expenses to be claimed without the production of receipts. In no other organisation would this be allowed and since taxpayer funds Parliament it is essential that complete transparency in all financial dealings is present for all MPs.
MPs for various reasons - and for the most part unjustifiably - are held in very low public esteem which means that the risk of that esteem dropping any further is very real.
Please vote against this proposal and show that Parliament does not have rules that would be laughed at if they were in pretty well any other institution - both public and private
Yours sincerely,
"

I am awaiting - probably in vain - for a reply

Update

Incredibly, Gordon Brown has imposed a three line whip on this for Labour MPs. This issue will be used to beat Labour over the head for a very long time. It really is shaming of this government that they are so hell bent to hide their expences.

Update 2

Brown has backed down .... here

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