Taxpayers’ Alliance: MPs should be bad employers
So what does the Taxpayers’ Alliance attack amount to? It amounts to saying, “It’s outrageous that MPs are being decent employers! How dare they! We want bad staff!” … Read the full post »
Read my posts about MPs’ expenses, and in particular the scandal over expense claims which broke during the 2005-10 Parliament.
So what does the Taxpayers’ Alliance attack amount to? It amounts to saying, “It’s outrageous that MPs are being decent employers! How dare they! We want bad staff!” … Read the full post »
From The Daily Telegraph comes news of pressure on Conservative MP George Osborne over his use of MPs’ expenses. … Read the full post »
Today’s Daily Telegraph story about Labour MP Glenda Jacksons’s expenses was first reported on this site many months ago. … Read the full post »
MP David Amess ran from the Echo to avoid questions after his expenses showed he claimed the maximum of £400 for food every month for the past four years. … Read the full post »
Another one for the “how not to handle the media” file courtesy of Brent Labour MP Dawn Butler. … Read the full post »
From today’s Corrections and Clarifications column in the Guardian comes an apology to Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson. … Read the full post »
March 1997: John Major is Prime Minister and there’s a Parliamentary by-election in the Conservative-held seat of Wirral South. … Read the full post »
Last summer an unholy alliance of Labour and Conservative MPs voted to block a series of major reforms to MP expenses, such as requiring receipts for all claims, having outside checks and major changes to the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA). … Read the full post »
When blogging earlier today about how Labour MP Dawn Butler was one of those who blocked reforms to MPs’ expenses last year it crossed my mind to make a satirical comment. … Read the full post »
Brent South Labour MP Dawn Butler has been under fire over her expense claims, as previously covered on this site. … Read the full post »