Expenses, Expenses.

I dont intend to write much on the issue of MP's expenses, an issue that it is receiving massive publicity at the moment, but it is worth pointing out again that few of these people have the house of commons as their sole source of income. A certain well known MP was reported to have been paid something like £75, 000 per year for writing a weekly column for a sunday newspaper a few years ago on top of his MP's salary. Many others of course, have nice little earners in other areas of the media as well as professions like law, not to mention that they are entitled to generous pensions when they lose their seats.

And they still wonder why people get pissed off when they see them putting in expenses claims for bars of chocolate ?.