Comments on: MPs’ expenses – what can Dave teach us? https://jamescousins.com/2009/05/mps-expenses-what-can-dave-teach-us/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Sat, 16 May 2009 15:18:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cyril Richert https://jamescousins.com/2009/05/mps-expenses-what-can-dave-teach-us/#comment-726 Sat, 16 May 2009 15:18:19 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=1204#comment-726 There is much to say on the current politician turmoil… but I will leave it for later (maybe), just not time right now.
However I want to comment the beginning of the article:
I don’t believe that “having to live on the same income and means as his constituents was probably fairly in touch with their concerns and problems”. Because if you agree with that, then only a factory-worker-politician will be able to deal with factory-workers, only former train manager would be able to deal with the train systems issues…etc.

]]> By: Richard Cudlip https://jamescousins.com/2009/05/mps-expenses-what-can-dave-teach-us/#comment-717 Tue, 12 May 2009 16:07:43 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=1204#comment-717 James, we are in danger of agreeing again! Sir Stephen of Tweet gets this one wrong I think. Whilst I’m prepared to agree with him that the low level expenses fiddle in neither here nor there, what we are talking about here is far from that. It’s planned & systematic abuse of a flawed system. And as you rightly point out, if MP’s judgements on what they should or shouldn’t be claiming is wrong, then what else are they wrong about? And this argument coming from many, including the hateful Hazel Blears, that everything they did was within the rules of the system but, hang on, we’ve suddenly just realised the system is wrong and needs changing, well just leaves me fuming. I just hope the political will is there to draw a line under the past, get a decent system into place and move on, as my old buddy Sadiq Khan says on his blog!!

Good stuff though James….

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