Of course the headline is inaccurate and nobody is going to suggest that the Home Secretary wants the public to have their porn paid for by the taxpayer but somehow or another an expenses claim was made for the taxpayer to pay for porn her husband chose to purchase and watch.
So the question is why did that expense claim get put through the system and since it did get passed through why should not all taxpayers be allowed to claim for their porn rentals. No doubt some could claim it as a legitimate business expense but most would be turned down flat and questions would be asked.
This is yet another example of the way MP’s claim for anything they can get away with as expenses and expect taxpayers to fork out for everything they do. The government needs to act on MP’s expenses allowances and act fast. The public are sick of these squalid revelations of members of parliament taking the public for a ride. If MP’s deserve better pay then let that be established in the court of public opinion. Most of us would not want the job but then neither should it become a job that people would do for the money and the power.
Sadly, more and more, we are given the impression that this is exactly why many people do go into politics and that may be very unfair on the majority of hard working members of parliament. It is a dark cloud that hangs over what was once deservedly known as the mother of all parliaments but is rapidly becoming the whore of all parliaments.
We get so used to ‘sound bites’ and made for tv speaches we rarely get to hear great speeches from our politicians. They may be capable of giving a good speech but few get noticed by the public or the news media.
One person to break that mold is Daniel Hannan Member Of The European Parliament. His very well delivered speech made it on to Youtube and has had over a million views and it continues to spread.
Hopefully this will encourage our politicians to make good speeches in the hope that people will gt to hear them.
Once again a Member Of Parliament is in the firing line over expenses claimed for a second home. Once more the public feel outraged and most likely, once again, there will be an inquiry and nothing much will happen.
Both the government and MPs constantly complain that they are held in such low regard by the public. There is no doubt that most MPs are hardworking, decent people trying to do their best for the country and their constituents but stories such as these always make the public angry and the government and MPs should take note.
Just as the banker’s bonus payments have incensed the nation, so it is with politicians expenses claims. When a Member of Parliament is able to claim as much in a year for their second home as many people earn people are bound to ask whether this practice is either fair or reasonable.
MPs have a difficult job and for many their homes are hundreds of miles away from London but do they really need to maintain a second home at the expense of the taxpayer?
Many people have to work away from home for most of the week and most of those manage well enough using either a Bed and breakfast establishment or a small hotel. We are entitled to ask Members of Parliament to justify these enormous expense claims on second homes and ask whether they should have the facility at all.
