bill cash
In the UK an MP’s income is a salary plus expenses ‘necessarily incurred for the performance of a Member’s parliamentary duties’ . MP’s understanding of expenses appears to be equivalent to my notion of a salary, that is, spent on anything that supports your preferred lifestyle. Expenses have been paid to conservative MPs to cover moat cleaning, buying chandaliers, mending tennis-court water-pipes, Piano tuning, gardening, Island homes for ducks, changing lightbulbs, and swimming-pool servicing.
Newspapers covering the Bill Cash expenses exposure have avoided commenting on his name, so I’ll avoid it too.
May 30th, 2009
And what about this one, reported today in the DT:
“Frank Cook, a Labour backbench MP, used his expenses to claim for a £5 donation he made during a church service”
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June 1st, 2009
Yes I’m glad you avoided the obvious gag. Isn’t it strange how so many MPs are millionaires – if they weren’t when they entered, they are when they leave!
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