Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:MPs expenses | |
Posted by: | Martin Hime | |
Date/Time: | 13/05/09 17:54:00 |
Thanks James for your thoughtful contribution and thanks Martine for your continued interest. I don't see why claiming for a wreath is so awful. No personal benefit to MP although perhaps a bit of free publicity. Happily the discussion has widened today - see articles in today's Times - to a consideration of the whole of Parliamentary procedures. It certainly seems to me many of the procedures go back to the dark ages. If all this drama leads to a modernisation of procedures there will have been a great benefit - and real progress in Parliament. And, of course, the end of the Speaker's career - he was a disaster from day 1. |