Getting all Political again....

Oh well, here I go again, ranting & raving. I just can’t help it!


It's every time I turn on the TV these days I just get MAD AS HELL about the stuff I'm seeing - usually on the News!

MPs' Expenses

Now you'd think that after all the kafuffle that was caused when The Daily Telegraph broke the stories about how our MPs' had for years been fiddling there expenses and pocketing tens of thousands pounds of Tax Payers money and the ensuing rage that followed; that lessons may have been learned!

But oh no, it would seem that now the dust has settled that Mps' would prefer to go back to the bad old days. They would prefer it if they didn't need to produce receipts for anything they may have needed to purchase whilst going about their business. They would prefer it if, once they had put in their expense claims that they didn't need to be scanned to make sure that what they were claiming for was justified. They would prefer that should they just say that they need to claim these expenses, that they should just be paid out instantly so that they are never out of pocket and they would prefer that we should just take them at their word; because after all they are MPs' and have never done anything that may require us to question their integrity in the past.

Today, a spokesman speaking on behalf of David Cameron said "they couldn't rule out" scrapping the new expenses checking body that was introduced following the last MPs' scandal that gave the press a field day, caused massive public outcry and changed the way I for one, viewed our Political system.

Anyone who has had to fill out expense forms as part of their job will know that it is a fact of life that accompanying any claim for expense must be backed up by a receipt or statement, will have to be checked for its' relevance and should it be found to be fraudulent, that the outcome will end with dismissal or at worst with prosecution. Why do MPs' not get the message that as we have to abide by these rules, we expect our leaders to abide by them too?

I know there are many things going on in the world that I can do nothing about and that I really shouldn't dig around the way I do, only to find evermore things that enrage me and make me want to scream. But on this occasion I would like to ask anyone who's reading this, who feels the same sense of disgust at the Government as I; could they voice their disgust too.

Take care everyone…. Ian