Conservative MP Nadine Jones has said on her blog that Westminster has become ‘unbearable’ over the last two weeks as The Daily Telegraph continues it’s serial publication of MPs expenses. She warns that some MPs are ‘beginning to crack’ and ‘everyone fears a suicide.’
The poor woman goes on to suggest that the Telegraph expenses disclosures are a ‘McCarthy style witch hunt‘ forcing politicians to breaking point, going so far as to say that MPs are ‘genuinely concerned’ as they walk around Westminster with ‘terror in their eyes.’
What exactly is making the poor little darlings so afraid?
Labour MP Stephen Pound speaking on BBC’s Today programme dismissed Jone’s analogy as ‘Facile’ because McCarthy’s victims were innocent, good to hear that there is some intelligence in Westminster. He accused MPs of revelling in a sense of entitlement fostered by (government employed) fees office staff who saw it as their job to maximise members claims.
While keen to put pressure on fees office staff, Pound at least admitted that MPs have no-one to blame but themselves.
How sick I am of hearing the non excuses from inteligent and well educated people in parliament who insist that they have done nothing wrong or are within the rules or in the case of the dour faced Margaret Beckett, who was wheeled onto TV at short notice to defend MPs expenses, claiming that she was simply ‘too busy’ to be bothered to check her own expenses claims.
Nadine Jones meanwhile must at last feel as the UK public do with this incompetent bunch of morons from all parties. They are no different to the benefit cheats , who MPs consider the scum of the earth.
Jone’s claims that MPs can’t take much more, ‘This has got to a point now where it is almost unbearable for any human being to deal with.’
She is right. Do the correct thing, pay back the money and get out of politics, it really is quite simple.
2 comments so far
1 Jayne Smyth // May 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Remind us, what did MPs do to support David Kelly ?
2 Christine Robbie // May 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I am very angry about public scorn for the issue of suicide risk in the House of Commons. What on earth is the matter with the general public ? Having worked in a workplace where there has been a suicide , let me tell you it is not a matter for sarcasm and petty point scoring ..
Moreover , hasn’t the public heard of the idea of only those who are without sin casting the first stone? And judging not that you may not be judged ? Most of the stories we have heard about Mp’s expenses are no different from what people do in every walk of life .