Today the BBC are reporting a predicted "overhaul" of the way MPs expenses are handled after Scotland Yard announced that they will not be investigating Derek Conway, better known as that MP who payed his son an exorbitant amount of pocket money out of the state coffers.
Apparently there is no proper system in place to record MPs expenses and the Common's Committee which is currently working on a way forward is promising "a more robust regime for audit."
Well I think it's about time! I think this issue has really opened our eyes to the kind of attitudes that the servants of the people have. I could save that Commons committee lots of time, just make MPs do what everybody else has to do, provide receipts for everything right down to the last bus ticket. Let the allowances be set by the a committee of laypersons as they like to call us lesser beings who have to pay for our own kitchens. If we are going to start economising on public expenditure, let's start with MPs.
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